Definition of "nonmarital" []

• Not in a marital relationship; unmarried to one another (adjective)

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• "Another important distinction that gets lost when talking about what to call the one-sexed kind of nonmarital arrangement: the misuse of the word“ban”."
• "Figure 5.3 shows that as a fraction of all switching, nonmarital switching has grown over the last three decades, even though both switching and as we shall shortly see intermarriage have grown, presumably factors that boosted marital switching.23 So switching is up, and nonmarital switching is up even more."
• "These interconnected issues involving nonmarital sex, homosexuality, pornography, and abortion had become white-hot during the long Sixties."