Assertion: betrothal's marriage | /r/HasProperty | contracted
Facets:
value: according to this rite
type: TEMPORAL
value: in seeming passion
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: He is now no longer young, and cannot expect to excite passion; he has had in his youth a great deal of melancholy experience, and his own misfortune, as well as the fate of many of his friends, has convinced him, that what men call love, is but an unmanly craving, often vanity, sometimes even infatuation, and that most marriages which are contracted in seeming passion, bring on but a joyless, most fretful life, often wretchedness.
text: For often grave doubt existed in discerning the person of the pastor in whose presence the marriage was contracted.
text: As often as marriage is contracted according to the norm of number VII or VIII, the priest (in the first case) or the witnesses (in the second) must take great care, together with the marriage partners, that the contracting of marriage be noted in the prescribed books as soon as possible.
text: served to document in a particularly satisfactory way for a semiliterate society that a marriage had been contracted.
text: What needs to be stressed here is that when marriage was contracted according to this rite—whether in a domestic or an ecclesiastical setting, whether before a notary or before a priest—there was no joining of the couple's hands but only the giving of a ring by the groom to the bride, without ceremony and without words, after the consent had been verified by the presiding individual.