Illustriously - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: illustriously Page: 2Illustrious
Possessing luster or brightness brilliant luminous splendid...
Ignoble
Of low birth or family not noble not illustrious plebeian common humble...
Honorable
Worthy of honor fit to be esteemed or regarded estimable illustrious...
Hero
An illustrious man supposed to be exalted after death to a place among the gods a demigod as Hercules...
Gloried
Illustrious honorable noble...
dignify
To invest with dignity or honor to make illustrious to give distinction to to exalt in rank to honor...
Chivalry
A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback illustrious warriors collectively cavalry...
Morganatic marriage
Morganatic marriage. The lawful and inseparable conjunction of a man of noble or illustrious birth with a woman of inferior station, upon condition that neither the wife nor her children shall partake of the titles, arms, or dignity of the husband, or succeed to his inheritance, but be contented with a certain allowed rank assigned to them by the morganatic contract. But since these restrictions relate only to the rank of the parties and succession to property, without affecting the nature of a matrimonial engagement, it must be considered as a just marriage. The marriage ceremony was regularly performed; the union was indissoluble; the children legitimate. This connection was very usual in Europe; but there is not proof that the concubines of Charlemagne and the early kings of France were wives of this description, nor is there occasion to resort to that supposition in defence of their conduct, since the state of concubinage itself was little inferior to this in the public estimation;...
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