Crossword-Solution: MORGANATIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Morganatic | a. | Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Of a form of marriage | 1 answer |
| Kind of marriage | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MORGANATIC (5)
Nothing but a morganatic marriage would be possible, and this would deprive his children of the throne.
May I ask your reason for renouncing your princely titles?’ ‘Simply because the idea of a morganatic marriage would be as repugnant to me as it would be to yourself and to Nella.’ ‘That is good.’ The Prince laughed.
Frau Kati Schratt, later morganatic wife of Emperor Franz Josef, but then leading comedienne of the Burg Theater, is said to have been cast for the leading part in the mining-play; and Director-General Herr Schlenther, head of the Burg Theater management, was deeply disappointed.
Yet upon a renewal period of at least twenty and preferably fifty years depended the fulfilment of all the colossal things he had begun—his art-collection, his new mansion, his growing prestige as a financier, his rehabilitation socially, and the celebration of his triumph by a union, morganatic or otherwise, with some one who would be worthy to share his throne.
Sophia blushed from pleasure; she was now convinced that the king would not seek a divorce from his wife, in order to form a morganatic marriage with Laura von Pannewitz; and the queen-mother was of too noble and virtuous a nature herself to believe in the possibility of a mistress at the court of Prussia.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).