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prenuptial

[ pree-nuhp-shuhl, ‑chuhl ]

adjective

  1. before marriage.


prenuptial

/ -tʃəl; priːˈnʌpʃəl /

adjective

  1. occurring or existing before marriage

    a prenuptial agreement



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Pronunciation Note

See nuptial.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of prenuptial1

First recorded in 1865–70; pre- + nuptial

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Example Sentences

The couple is apparently planning to have a prenuptial dinner in Paris on Friday night.

After all, a poorer person usually has less leverage in prenuptial agreement negotiations.

Specifically, more couples are beginning to request digital privacy clauses in prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements.

As is customary in heterosexual marriage, gay couples are increasingly signing prenuptial agreements.

He famously gave Queen Elizabeth II a collection of lesser diamonds from his jewelry cache as a prenuptial gift.

Allow me to urge upon you the advisability of drawing up and signing a prenuptial marriage settlement.

The relations both prenuptial and postnuptial between the sexes are of the strictest kind.

At the first prenuptial molt, in late winter and spring, young birds become indistinguishable from adults.

Some of these juvenal feathers are retained through the next, the partial prenuptial molt.

The next partial prenuptial molt apparently removes all traces of immaturity.

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