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celestial marriage
noun
the rite or state of marriage, performed in a Mormon temple by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and believed to continue beyond death.
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of celestial marriage1
Example Sentences
Strangās first ācelestial marriageā was to an intelligent young woman named Elvira Field.
One day Joseph was chatting about celestial marriage with Brigham and the unmarried Fanny Young.
Heber stunned his daughter by telling her that her close friend, Sarah Ann Whitney, had already joined Joseph in celestial marriage.
A farm girl who survived the brutal wagon march west from Nauvoo resists an arranged ācelestial marriageā to an aging Mormon bishop ā until a plague of locusts descends on their valley.
Her only hope of a future life depends upon her being united in "celestial marriage" to some man.
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