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noun

Alimony n.

Maintenance; means of living.

(Law) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alimony" Quotes from Famous Books

... General Assembly shall have power to pass general laws regulating divorce and alimony, but shall not have power to grant a divorce or secure ...

— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore

... multiple mucosities all over you. I tried it. Your strength our weakness. What's our studfee? What will you pay on the nail? You fee mendancers on the Riviera, I read. (The fleeing nymph raises a keen) Eh? I have sixteen years of black slave labour behind me. And would a jury give me five shillings alimony tomorrow, eh? Fool someone else, not me. (He sniffs) Rut. ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... you might be hangin' from tree tops, and chasin' each other 'round stumps, in a honest, oncivilized way. If you don't look out your ladies will foller the example of the Four Hundred and be thinkin' of a divorce and big alimony next." ...

— Samantha at Coney Island - and a Thousand Other Islands • Marietta Holley

... envied friend lived in New York, and her life was just one roof garden after another. She had everything heart could desire—Oriental rugs, a grandfather's clock, a mechanical piano, bird-of-paradise sprays for her hat, a sealskin ulster, and plenty of alimony. And in case said business man proved unsatisfactory Trudy had resolved to exchange him for unlimited legal support at the earliest ...

— The Gorgeous Girl • Nalbro Bartley

... business. True, now that divorce had pushed its way up and had become recognized by fashionable society, had become an established social favorite, marriage had been robbed of one of its terrors. But the other remained—divorce still meant alimony. The woman who trapped an eligible never endangered her hard-earned position; a man must be extremely careful or he would find himself forced to hard choice between keeping on with a woman he wished to be rid of and paying out a large part of his income in alimony. ...

— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips

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