misalliance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mis=al=li=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

misalliance, n. [F. mésalliance.].

 A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.  [1913 Webster]
"A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed
A Howard should know it."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misalliance, n. an unsuitable alliance, esp. an unsuitable marriage.

Derivative

misally v.tr. (-ies, -ied).

Etymology

MIS-(1) + ALLIANCE, after M{Eacute}SALLIANCE

THESAURUS

misalliance

a world-without-end bargain, abnormality, alliance, anomaly, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, infelicity, intermarriage, interracial marriage, invalid linking, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladjustment, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misapplicability, misapplication, miscegenation, misconnection, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, misreference, misrelation, mixed marriage, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, uncongeniality, unfitness, union, unsuitability, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood