Definitions

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  • adjective After marriage.

Etymologies

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post- +‎ marital

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Examples

  • I had a notebook dedicated to ironing out the details of my postmarital name change.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • I had a notebook dedicated to ironing out the details of my postmarital name change.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • Only when the intercourse is premarital, extramarital or postmarital can one be charged with being unchaste.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Only when the intercourse is premarital, extramarital or postmarital can one be charged with being unchaste.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • No wonder that even before they sit down to lunch, Mundy feels more postcoital than postmarital.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • Julia Roberts goes in search of postmarital fulfillment in Ryan Murphy's adaptation of

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Mother Hallam is the prototypical matriarch; the sisters-in-law are postmarital versions of Cinderella’s stepsisters — unattractive, catty, and stingy; and the materialistic sons enjoy a complacent rigidity.

    Rose Franken. 2009

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