remarrying
present participle ofremarry
| 单词 | remarrying |
| 释义 | remarrying present participle ofremarry remarry verb[IorT] uk/ˌriːˈmær.i/us/ˌriːˈmer.i/tomarryagain: After alengthyandpainfuldivorce, shevowednever to remarry. Hermotherdiedinchildbirth, and herfatherremarried when she was ababy. Richard Burtonfamouslyremarried Elizabeth Taylor. Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
Examplesofremarryingremarrying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. At younger ages, a widow had more chances ofremarrying(1 out of 5), but still less than widowers (1 out of 2). From theCambridge English Corpus As we have seen, never-married women rarely held land before marriage, although it was more common forremarryingwidows to do so. From theCambridge English Corpus She had good reasons forremarryingbut also good alternatives. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, it should be kept in mind that, upon any marital dissolution, one had a risk ofremarrying, migrating out or dying. From theCambridge English Corpus First, the proportion of widowsremarryingdeclined during the early modern period. From theCambridge English Corpus For those who were still young when their spouse died, there was the alternative ofremarrying. From theCambridge English Corpus On the one hand, they were generally discouraged fromremarrying. From theCambridge English Corpus As expected, the remarriage risk of widows was more sensitive to age, in the sense that the risk ofremarryingfell significantly as age increased. From theCambridge English Corpus The advantages of freedom from control and obedience were familiar features of texts considering the case for widows notremarrying. From theCambridge English Corpus A scrupulous husband might wait for two full years beforeremarrying, while his children completed their mourning obligations. From theCambridge English Corpus Placed at the bottom of the household hierarchy along with servants (recall the case of the ' little old woman ' in household twenty-five), they were virtually barred fromremarrying. From theCambridge English Corpus While the presence of dependent children seems to have increased the likelihood of remarriage, widows with children all over the age of 12 conversely had few chances ofremarrying. From theCambridge English Corpus It is also possible that the increasingly systematic provision of poor relief from the late sixteenth century onwards had a negative impact on the proportion of widowsremarrying. From theCambridge English Corpus In the last half of the nineteenth century, negative attitudes towards elderly widowsremarryingmay have persuaded farmer widows to refrain from remarriage and to choose another option. From theCambridge English Corpus In this framework, couples separate when the utility that they can expect from remaining married falls below the utility that they can expect from divorcing and possiblyremarrying. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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