morganatic 的定义
- of or relating to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner.
更多morganatic例句
- Weber, however, had spoken of a morganatic marriage, and fearful pressure might be brought to bear.
- Do you understand that it was a great honor he offered Mademoiselle Lannes, to make her his morganatic wife?
- It is only the rare man who can conceal enough of his income from his wife to pay for a morganatic affair.
- Famous dancer and morganatic wife of Prince Adalbert of Prussia.
- They become in a sense morganatic wives, lacking only the name, and often not deserving less respect than if they had it.