Mesalliance Definition

mā-zălē-əns, māză-lyäɴs
noun
A marriage with a person of lower social status.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mesalliance

Noun

Singular:
mesalliance
Plural:
msalliances

Origin of Mesalliance

  • French més- bad (from Old French mes- mis–1) alliance alliance (from Old French aliance alliance)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French mésalliance, from mésallier (“to misally").

    From Wiktionary

Mesalliance Sentence Examples

  • Madame de Prie first suggested the Polish princess as a bride for Louis duke of Bourbon, but she was soon betrothed not to him but to Louis XV., a step which was the outcome of the jealousies of the houses of Conde and Orleans, and was everywhere regarded as a mesalliance for the French king.

  • In 1768 he was recalled, ostensibly because of a mesalliance with Mme Testa, widow of a Pera surgeon, but really because Choiseul thought him not zealous enough in provoking a quarrel between Russia and Turkey.

  • In her son's lifetime she had, for his sake, condoned the mesalliance, but it was impossible for the stately chatelaine and her low-born daughterin-law to live in peace under the same roof.

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Words Starting With

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