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Civil union   /sˈɪvəl jˈunjən/   Listen
Civil union

noun
1.
A voluntary union for life (or until divorce) of adult parties of the same sex.





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... day of their wedding, Mavis was already wondering if she were beginning to love Harold; but for all this uncertainty, she believed that if the marriage were to be a physical as well as a civil union, she would have confessed before the ceremony took place her previous intimacy with Perigal. After the marriage, the holy fervour with which Harold had regarded Mavis bewildered her. The more his nature was revealed to her, the better she was enabled to realise the cold-blooded brutality with ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte


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