Morganatic (Adjective)
Meaning
(of marriages) of a marriage between one of royal or noble birth and one of lower rank; valid but with the understanding that the rank of the inferior remains unchanged and offspring do not succeed to titles or property of the superior.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- He agreed to the morganatic marriage on the condition that his children with his new wife would not inherit the throne.
- Although their marriage was considered morganatic due to her commoner status, the royal family eventually grew to accept her.
- Historians suggest that morganatic marriages like this were once used as a diplomatic tool between nobility.
- King Louis chose a morganatic marriage when he wed the lady-in-waiting he fell in love with rather than marry into another royal family.
- After discovering her lowly birth, his parents forbade their son from entering into a morganatic marriage with his new fiancée.