Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Before marriage or a wedding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Prior to marriage: as, a prenuptial contract.
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- adjective Occurring before
marriage ;antenuptial .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to events before a marriage
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's called a prenuptial agreement and she's not allowed to be doing that.
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But the alliance is now on the rocks as the MDC accuses President Mugabe of multiple violations of what you might call their prenuptial agreement.
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'' prenuptial '' agreement signed before their Barbados wedding in 2004.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2009
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'' prenuptial '' agreement signed before their Barbados wedding in 2004.
unknown title 2009
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Now, foreign nationals who choose to live and work in London will no longer experience the rather nasty shock or unexpected windfall of finding that their prenuptial agreement, carefully and legitimately agreed in a country where it's completely valid, gets torn up and thrown away by the English courts because they happen to be living in England when they divorce.
Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011
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In so doing, Vardag helped change the way prenuptial agreements are now handled in English law.
Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011
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Thanks to your Radmacher v Granatino win, prenuptial agreements are now recognized under English law, whereas before they were rarely recognized.
Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011
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In terms of the English culture itself, in my experience it seems that most Brits were not even aware that England did not recognize prenuptial agreements until Radmacher hit the headlines.
Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011
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Culturally, England is slowly catching up with the rest of continental Europe and the United States where prenuptial agreements are relatively commonplace and socially acceptable.
Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011
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Culturally, England is slowly catching up with the rest of continental Europe and the United States where prenuptial agreements are relatively commonplace and socially acceptable.
Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011
qroqqa commented on the word prenuptial
By a nail-biting 5-4 vote my office have just decided we will be writing this fused, rather than hyphenated. Rejoice! rejoice!
September 5, 2008