previous marriage

collocation in English

meaningsofpreviousandmarriage

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previous
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/us
/ˈpriː.vi.əs/
happening or existing before something or ...
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marriage
noun
uk
/ˈmær.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈmer.ɪdʒ/
a legally accepted relationship between two people in which they live together, or the official ceremony that results ...
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(Definition ofpreviousandmarriagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprevious marriage

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Event history analysis is applied separately for males and females, and for two types ofpreviousmarriage(uxorilocal and virilocal).
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Type ofpreviousmarriageunknown and type of marital dissolution unknown were included but the results are not shown.
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However, the difference resulted from an intricate interplay between coresiding kin and types ofpreviousmarriagewithin the context of the stem family household organization.
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Anypreviousmarriage(or similar relationship) by either partner must have permanently broken down.
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He was the only child of those parents—one had two daughters by apreviousmarriage.
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Then there is the point about a possible involvement in apreviousmarriagebreakdown.
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He has 2 children from apreviousmarriageand 2 step-children from his wife'spreviousmarriage.
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The ten-month waiting period explains why remarriages of females whose marriage ended due to spousal absconding occurred later than when thepreviousmarriagehad ended for other reasons.
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Paragraph (b) refers to the cause of the dissolution of apreviousmarriage, and here comes my paradox.
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That is a different situation, because we are dealing with a separated wife from apreviousmarriage.
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The second marriage is, and must be, entered into in the context of there having been apreviousmarriage.
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It may be said that it is retrograde to look at what went wrong in apreviousmarriage.
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Two of those children are by apreviousmarriage, and they were severely mistreated by the previous husband.
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He also has two daughters from apreviousmarriage.
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He has 3 children from apreviousmarriage.
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He had two daughters from hispreviousmarriage.
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She has one child from apreviousmarriage.
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He had three children from apreviousmarriage.
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He has three children from apreviousmarriage.
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He has four daughters from apreviousmarriage.
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He has several children from apreviousmarriage.
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