mesalliance

• General Paoli mentioned a passage in the play, which had been construed into a compliment to a lady of distinction, whose marriage with the Duke of Cumberland had excited the strong disapprobation of the king as a mesalliance. —  Oliver Goldsmith
• Julia became the wife of Caius Marius, a mesalliance which implied the beginning of a political split in the Caesar family. —  Caesar: A Sketch
• It was even better that Horace should marry her than that they should risk the scandal of a mesalliance, or even-a passing acquaintance with a man like Rickman. —  The Divine Fire
• It seems that the sisters could not forgive the mesalliance, as they deemed it, for Lady Langdale's will shows no bequest to the Bacons Lady Langdale had another sister, who married a son of Doctor Vernon-Harcourt, long archbishop of York, grandfather of "Historicus," the well-known political letter-writer of the London Times_. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
• This mesalliance is unpardonable. —  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig

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