Definitions

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  • noun The tendency of a people toward marriage, expressed statistically by the marriage-rate.

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  • noun the state of being married

Etymologies

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nuptial +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • Although the economic crises of the 1930s inhibited nuptiality, war and peace inspired high rates of marriage and fertility, confounding demographers 'forecasts and temporarily reversing long-term downward trends. 79 The men who served in the nation's armed forces were in the forefront of this domestic revolution.

    Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008

  • According to nuptiality records, in the last decades of the 19th century the proportion of women 65 and older who had never married was slightly above 6 percent.

    I Sing of Fizzy Fluid Retention P. J. O'Rourke 2007

  • According to nuptiality records, in the last decades of the 19th century the proportion of women 65 and older who had never married was slightly above 6 percent.

    I Sing of Fizzy Fluid Retention P. J. O'Rourke 2007

  • High nuptiality is behind the irresponsible population explosion that contributes to the problem - exactly what Malthus observed was the case when those without economic prospects were foolishly patronised by paternalist authorities in a misplaced sense of responsibility.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • MB Clyde commented "High nuptiality is behind the irresponsible population explosion that contributes to the problem."

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • So when I speak of nuptiality in the Eucharist, I am referring first to the mystery of the relationship withing the Trinity: just as in the Trinity the Son is generated by the Father's love but not without Christ's reception of the gift, the same structure is present, or should be present, in human marriage; and secondly to Christ's espousal to the Church.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Mike L 2005

  • The mystery of nuptiality rests on three points: otherness, self-gift into communion, and the fruitfulness of communion.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Mike L 2005

  • God knows that we long to enter into communion with Him, to enter into the nuptiality of the Trinity, and allows us to taste and see this nuptial union in the Eucharist.

    The Nuptuality of Catholicism Mike L 2005

  • God knows that we long to enter into communion with Him, to enter into the nuptiality of the Trinity, and allows us to taste and see this nuptial union in the Eucharist.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Mike L 2005

  • The mystery of nuptiality rests on three points: otherness, self-gift into communion, and the fruitfulness of communion.

    The Nuptuality of Catholicism Mike L 2005

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