1) Announcement 2) Betrothal notice 3) Church marriage notice 4) Church notice of a marriage 5) Church proclamation 6) Church proclamations 7) Exclusively Anglo word 8) Exclusively Saxon word 9) Happy announcement 10) Hitching notice 11) Marriage announcement 12) Marriage notice 13) Marriage notices
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an announcement or notice of an intended marriage in a parish church. The banns were published on three consecutive Sundays. If no one "forbid the banns" the couple could get married.
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• (n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
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Banns noun plural [ See
Ban .] Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
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In the feudal law, banns were a solemn proclamation of any kind; hence arose the present custom of asking banns, or giving notice before marriage.
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n] - a public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage
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The legal preliminary to marriage in church is for banns to be published. Banns are the public announcement that two people wish to marry, and an invitation to anybody who knows just cause or impediment to the union to declare it. On three Sundays prior to the wedding, the banns are read out in the parish church(es) of the future bride and groom, a...
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noun a public announcement of a proposed marriage
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