BANNS OF MARRIAGE

Domain	Definition
Literature	Banns of Marriage The publication in the parish church for three successive Sundays of an intended marriage. It is made after the Second Lesson of the Morning Service. To announce the intention is called "Publishing the banns," from the words "I publish the banns of marriage between ... " (Anglo-Saxon, ge-bannan, to proclaim, to announce). To forbid the banns. To object to the proposed marriage. "And a better fate did poor Maria deserve than to have a banns forbidden by the curate of the parish who published them." - Sterne: Sentimental Journey. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Banns of marriage

The banns of marriage or, simply "the banns," (from an Old English word meaning "to summon") are the public announcement from the pulpit that a marriage is going to take place in that church between two specified persons at a specified time.

Their purpose is to allow anyone to come to the wedding to raise any legal impediment to it -- such an impediment might be a prior marriage (or pre-contract or betrothal, those being legally the same as a marriage), or a vow of celibacy, or the couple's being related within the prohibited degree of kinship, or lack of consent -- to prevent marriages that are legally invalid, either under canon law or under civil law.

External link

"Banns of Marriage" in the Catholic Encyclopedia

Modern Translation: BANNS OF MARRIAGE

Language		Translations for "BANNS OF MARRIAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		huwelijksafkondiging (publication of banns). (various references)

Finnish		avioliittoon kuuluttaminen (publication of banns). (various references)

French		bans de mariage (banns). (various references)

German		Eheaufgebot, Aufgebot (banns, bans, exertion). (various references)

Italian		pubblicazioni di matrimonio (publication of banns). (various references)

Pig Latin		annsbay ofay arriagemay

Portuguese		banhos de casamento, processo preliminar de publicações (publication of banns). (various references)

Swedish		lysning (banns). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BANNS OF MARRIAGE

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	Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-e-f-g-i-m-n-n-o-r-r-s"
	-5 letters: bargainers, forbearing, forearming, forebrains, margarines, nonfarmers, omniranges.
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