Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a morganatic marriage.
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- adverb In a
morganatic manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1567, however, Erik married Karin morganatically, and, the following year, had her crowned Queen.
Sigrid Vasa Matterhorn 2009
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In 1567, Erik married Karin morganatically, and, the next year, made her his Queen.
Karin Månsdotter Matterhorn 2009
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In 1567, Erik married Karin morganatically, and, the next year, made her his Queen.
Archive 2009-08-01 Matterhorn 2009
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In 1567, however, Erik married Karin morganatically, and, the following year, had her crowned Queen.
Archive 2009-09-01 Matterhorn 2009
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Her eldest sister, Princess Margaretha married Prince Axel of Denmark, while her only brother Prince Carl, Duke of Ostergotland, married morganatically*.
Archive 2008-04-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Her eldest sister, Princess Margaretha married Prince Axel of Denmark, while her only brother Prince Carl, Duke of Ostergotland, married morganatically*.
The Snow Princess de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The marriage was recognized morganatically: Alexander was to remain a royal highness and a prince; his wife would have the lesser title of countess.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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If Franz Ferdinand was to marry Sophie Chotek at all, he must do it morganatically, and must renounce all rights of succession for the unborn children of their marriage; he could no more marry heher any otr way than a man with a living and undivorced wife can marry a second woman, though the infringement here was of an unpublished dynastic regulation instead of the published law.
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Nipponese police agents had called and threatened them with the law for letting rooms outside of the European concession to a Frenchman morganatically married to a Japanese; and the terror of being prosecuted brought them to me, with a thousand apologies, but with the humble request that I should leave.
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Frederick William III. of Prussia was one of her admirers, and had offered to marry her morganatically, and create her Herzogin von Breslau.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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