Word Meanings - MISALLIANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to MISALLIANCE)

• SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• SOCIALIZE
  1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• BLUSH
  1. To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• SOCIALITY
  The quality of being social; socialness.
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• BLUSHLESS
  Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent. Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.