Definition of "premarital" [premarital]

• Taking place or existing before marriage. (adjective)

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• "If a future, more liberal CLS leadership decided to allow voting members to promote or engage in premarital or homosexual intercourse, they would obviously regain official status because they will have adopted the school's preferred belief: the affirmation of homosexual practice."
• "According to your movement, people who engage in premarital sex should DIE."
• "The vaccine was opposed by prominent religious right groups because they said it would be seen as a “license to engage in premarital sex. ” [...]"