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- noun Plural form of
child-bride .
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Examples
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Some of them were very young girls and became the “child-brides” of much older men.
The Mormon Church, marriage and Proposition 8 hypocrisy 2008
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Not that he normally objected to old men and child-brides.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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During the recent B.C. case, court was told at least three girls from Bountiful became child-brides for Mr. Jeffs while other B.C. teens were married to men in Mr. Jeffs' sect.
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Court was told at least three B.C. girls became child-brides for Mr. Jeffs, although neither of the two victims he was convicted of assaulting were from the province.
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Many of these child-brides die from genital injuries as their husbands forcibly rape the girls, not yet unprepared for sex.
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