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Morganatic

Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband.

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Legitimate 84% connected

Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession…

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Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession…

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Left-handed 92% connected

Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.

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Ambilevous adjective · 78% connection

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Appeal verb · 78% connection

To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Awkly adverb · 78% connection

In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Behind adjective · 78% connection

Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Betroth verb · 78% connection

To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Briarean adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Certiorari noun · 78% connection

A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Conservation of parity noun · 78% connection

(physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Courting noun · 78% connection

a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "it was a brief and intense courts…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Courtship noun · 78% connection

a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "it was a brief and intense courts…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Disparage noun · 78% connection

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Disparagement noun · 78% connection

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or est…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Dowry noun · 78% connection

The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage. See Note under Dower.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Enantiomorphous adjective · 78% connection

Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral cr…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Equal adjective · 78% connection

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Feud noun · 78% connection

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Gauche noun · 78% connection

Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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Guaranty noun · 78% connection

In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answera…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, designating, marriage, called, left-handed.
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