ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

marry, join, handfast † ; couple &c (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away
in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c (promise) 768; publish the banns, bid the
banns; be asked in church.
Adj. married &c v.; one, one bone and one flesh.
marriageable, nubile.
engaged, betrothed, affianced.
matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal.
Phr. the gray mare the better horse; a world-without-end bargain [Love's Labor's Lost];
marriages are made in Heaven [Tennyson]; render me worthy of this noble wife [Julius
Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube pari [Lat.] [Ovid].
904. Celibacy -- N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood,
bachelorship † ; misogamy † , misogyny.
virginity, pucelage † ; maidenhood, maidenhead.
unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist † , old bachelor; misogamist † , misogynist;
monogamist; monk.
unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole [Fr.], old maid; bachelor
girl, girl-bachelor; nun.
V. live single, live alone.
Adj. unmarried, unwed, unwedded † ; wifeless, spouseless † ; single.
905. Divorce -- N. divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial separation, separate
maintenance; separatio a mensa et thoro [Lat.], separatio a vinculo matrimonii [Lat.].
trial separation, breakup; annulment.
widowhood, viduity † , weeds.
widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower;
merry widow.
V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse † , put away; wear the horns.
2. DIFFUSIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS
906. Benevolence -- N. benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good
will; philanthropy &c 910; unselfishness &c 942.
good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness &c adj.; lovingkindness,
benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy;
goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of
human kindness, tenderness; love &c 897; friendship &c 888.
toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy &c (pity) 914.
charitableness &c adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence, the luxury of
doing good [Goldsmith].
acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind
treatment.
good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant [Fr.]; altruist.
V. be benevolent &c adj.; have one's heart in the right place, bear good will; wish well,
wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor; take in good part;