republican marriage
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A Revolutionary Tribunal was established [at Nantes ], of which [Jean Paul] Carrier was the presiding demon—Carrier, known in all nations as the inventor of that last of barbarous atrocities, the Republican Marriage, in which two persons of different sexes, generally an old man and an old woman, or a young man and a young woman, bereft of every kind of clothing, were bound together before the multitude, exposed in a boat in that situation for half an hour or more, and then thrown into the river."
- ""By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage.""
- "Among other atrocities, he had instituted a new version of republican marriage, which involved tying a naked man and woman together and drowning them."