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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Morganatic Marriage
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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(Latin: morganatica, a dowry given the morning after a wedding)
The valid and licit union of a prince or a member of a ruling house with a woman of greatly inferior rank, contracted with the understanding that the children have no right to succeed to the title of their father. They are usually provided for by a gift or dowry to their mother, whence the name.
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Entry for 'Morganatic Marriage'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/morganatic-marriage.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Morganatic Marriage'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/m/morganatic-marriage.html. 1910.
