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Definitions
Describing a marriage in which the lower-ranking spouse and children do not inherit the higher rank.
Word origin
From New Latin morganāticus, from the Medieval Latin phrase mātrimōnium ad morganāticum, from Proto-Germanic *murgnagebō (“morning gift”) (whence Old English morgenġiefu).
Used in a sentence
“Francis Ferdinand's marriage was a morganatic alliance, and in consequence of a declaration which he made when contracting it, his children do not inherit his rights to the Austrian crown.”
“we have this day repudiated our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess Selene, the splendour of the night. (The former morganatic spouse of Bloom is hastily removed in the Black Maria.)”
“Because of her noble birth, she bitterly resented her position as a morganatic wife.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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