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- adjective Not
consummated
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- adjective not consummated (especially of a marriage)
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Examples
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Problem is, a second touch brings death, so their love must remain unconsummated despite increasingly creative forms of non-contact contact.
Replanting ABC's 'Pushing Daisies': Will it bloom or wilt? 2008
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“It would have been what the French call a mariage blanc unconsummated,” she recalled later.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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After two months of an unconsummated marriage, to a foreign bride, Angeline Barola, I suggested to her that we needed a marriage counselor or have the marriage annulled.
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Deducing this theme of unfulfillment, I ask the film-maker if her work was about unconsummated desire.
Spread ArtCulture: Interview: Eve Sussman - on the making of her film, Rape of the Sabine Women Spread ArtCulture 2010
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Nicky Wire is "part brother, part unconsummated lover, but mainly best friend and fashion-crime partner", a description that smacks of an outsider's eye.
Richard by Ben Myers – review Paul Owen 2010
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Their unconsummated affair works because quite frankly, we WANT it to work.
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They spend an intimate, sexually unconsummated night together after graduation from the University of Edinburgh in 1988, and subsequently they meet or correspond annually on its anniversary, the numinous St Swithin's Day, 15 July.
One Day – review 2011
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“It would have been what the French call a mariage blanc unconsummated,” she recalled later.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Though unconsummated, the marriage kept up for several years.
A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011
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But in my de-arrangement, it is the story of Eleanor's unconsummated and secret yearning for Father Mackenzie.
Voicing Her Pleasure Martin Johnson 2011
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