"marital union" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to marriage or the union between two spouses. For example, "The marital union between John and Sally lasted over 60 years."
Unlike marital union in his special sense, he contends, such acts treat the body as an instrument of the mind's pleasure.
At the end, when the theme is successful courtship and marital union, the dancers are courteously conjoined; the male characters place hands gallantly on the female partners' hips and hands.
Although their relationship is examined in a central chapter that turns on the claim that marital union transformed Luther's theology, Katharina remains a peripheral figure, overshadowed by the personality of her husband, whose own swelling girth and heavy jowls were captured in portraits by Lucas Cranach and other 16th-century painters.
Rather than promoting marital union, some think the law has damaged it by requiring the plaintiff to file for divorce.Cho Kuk, a lawyer at Seoul National University, says the law was evidence of a strong moralist tradition in the country's criminal code.
Building on both Origen and Augustine, Bernard and his contemporaries made affective, or marital, union with God in oneness of spirit (1 Corinthians 6 17) a central theme in Western mysticism, though along with Gregory the Great they insisted that "love itself is a form of knowing," that is, of vision or contemplation of God.
Nonetheless, a few general statements can be made: (1) incest is almost universally condemned and is usually viewed with horror; (2) rare, culturally sanctioned abrogations of the incest taboo are known, one of the foremost being the mandatory marital union of royal siblings; (3) as the immediacy of biological relationship decreases, sanctions against sexual intimacy may be relaxed or disappear.
It is hard to know why, having severed the link to children, the state has an interest in promoting same-sex relationships but not other kinds of non-marital union.
In a bizarre venture undertaken by an inner core of the English spiritualists, acting under the guidance of the scripts, a new messiah was to be conceived through an extra-marital union between Winifred Coombe-Tennant, a suffragist and British delegate to the League of Nations, and Balfour's brother Gerald, a Tory politician.
Areas or countries in which the majority of all children are born outside of marriage have not yet been studied in a comparative analysis of non-marital union stability.
The first (and expected) result is that the risk of entry into a non-marital union among childless non-pregnant women is very low in comparison to the corresponding risk of entry into marriage for the same group.
20 As we have noted, in the present application, the latter stands for the type of union formation, i.e., for entry into a marital or non-marital union, represented by h = 1 and h = 2, respectively, say.
