Banns is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BANNS in dictionary:

PLURAL NOUN:
• public declaration, esp in a church, of an intended marriage
NOUN:
• a marriage notice
• a notice read out on three successive Sundays in a parish church, announcing an intended marriage and giving the opportunity for objections.
• 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.
• a public announcement of a proposed marriage

Words related to BANNS

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How to use BANNS in a sentence

• The 11th April was Saturday, so that in order to have the marriage on that day it would be necessary that the banns should be called on Sunday, 22nd March.
• On Sunday I shall give notice of the banns, and you can deny them in the church if you will.
• During the week no news was heard of Abel, and on Saturday Eric gave notice of the banns of marriage between himself and Sarah Trefusis.
• Sarah was present, contrary to custom, and though she blushed furiously enjoyed her triumph over the other girls whose banns had not yet come.
• With jaunty steps he walked round and put up the banns, and then, with the air of a man who has completed a successful stroke of business, walked homewards.
• Question now, whether Axel Stroem would take her? But she had had the banns put up, anyway, the Sunday before.
• You must prevent them from publishing the banns until I come back, or until you hear from me.
• You see, in the first place, there were no banns published in church, and there was no permission from the bishop to omit publishing them.
• They had not mentioned the publication of the banns to him, and he was wholly unprepared for this utter annihilation of all his hopes.
• Great was the consternation when the banns of marriage between Henry Lorton and Henriette Clinton were published, the Sabbath preceding their wedding.
• If it be necessary that I should speak more plainly, I say, I forbid the banns.
• And there she charged him with perfidy, and threatened to appear at the church the next day with her marriage lines and forbid the banns.
• Have the banns put up, and I will engage to put David in prison.
• But most readers will remember that until a very recent date Church feeling had not restored to their proper honour the publication of banns.
• The banns were asked in church that their marriage might take place at once when John Johnstone should take his bride away.
• A fourth, to prevent marriages without license or banns.
• A revival under proper form of the old custom of publishing the banns is desirable.
• Although interesting as showing the drift of public sentiment toward a revival of the banns, this proposed law is poorly drawn.
• A good banns law, however, could meet no objections and would yield valuable results.
• They have had the banns published without saying anything about it, so as to force you to consent.
• During the month required for the legal formalities and for the publication of the banns of marriage between Cesarine and Anselme, Birotteau was a prey to feverish agitation.
• So the banns were put up in church for three weeks, and all Cahokia was invited to the grand wedding.
• On the very day when the banns were first published, the Baron received a second message from Africa.
• This death, happening just four days before the banns were cried for the last time, came upon Lisbeth like the thunderbolt that burns the garnered harvest with the barn.
• They came to Jupiter all in a sweat, And do forbid the banns.
• He published his own banns of marriage in the church, with a woman he had formerly christened, and he himself married all his four children.
• Marriage by banns, except in the country districts, is usually confined to the humbler classes of society.
• A marriage by banns, it is understood, can never be set aside by the after discovery of deception or concealment as respects residence, and even names, on either side.
• They put up their banns at the Union at Brighton, and were married by the Registrar, then went off to Paris.
• Their astonishment increased upon hearing, next Sunday, the banns published from the pulpit.
• The banns were put in and published the very next Sunday.
• At the end of a fortnight or three weeks matters remained unadvanced, and no banns were announced to the ears of any Aldbrickham congregation.
• Matters are so far advanced that the banns are to be published.
• All the same, the banns were published and the wedding day was fixed.
• The wedding day was fixed and they had asked to have the banns published.

Similar words containing BANN without suffix s

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