Crossword clues for banns
banns
- Premarital posting
- Church's marriage notice
- Public notice of impending nuptials
- Certain notices
- Wedding notice
- Public wedding announcement
- Proclamation of intended marriage
- Nuptial announcement
- Marriage prelims
- Happy announcement
- Church wedding notices
- Church notice of a marriage
- Church marriage notice
- Betrothal notice
- Marriage announcement
- Wedding broadcast
- Wedding proclamation
- A public announcement (in church) of a proposed marriage
- Marriage notices
- Church announcement
- Church notices re matrimony
- Marriage proclamation
- Marriage declaration
- Notice of a wedding
- Forbid these to stop partners wishing to make contract
- Wedding announcement
- Church engagement announcement
- Wedding announcements
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banns \Banns\ (b[a^]nz), n. pl. [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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see bann.
Wiktionary
n. The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
WordNet
n. a public announcement of a proposed marriage
Usage examples of "banns".
So it was that the Keepers of the Faith and the bedels gathered, and it was revealed to them by the Holy that there must be banns to control the relationship between the phyla.
The banns laid down by the Holy were as necessary on one world as on another, and surely the Holy presided over all creation.
Caledonia have remained stationary with our banns and our traditions, they have advanced in every direction.
John, every society I have ever heard of has had banns of one type or another.
It consisted in directing the clergyman to call in church the banns of marriage between Reginald Falcon and Rosa Staines.
Falcon took advantage of the opportunity, impregnated the father with his views, and got him to promise to have the banns cried next Sunday.
Oh, when I think that her folly drove me to sea, to do my best for her, and that I was nearer death for that woman than ever man was, and lost my reason for her, and went through toil and privations, hunger, exile, mainly for her, and then to find the banns cried in open church, with that scoundrel!
Everyone else in the castle she harangued with the same questions: how many banns had been posted, when, and where.
We posted those blasted banns in every village of over fivescore inhabitants.
Caithness, turned around, and come back, ripping down banns all the way, ranging like a maddened beast from Lowland to Highland.
Couples frequently lay together before and during the time banns were said.
Miss Pettifer, instructing him to commence the calling of the banns in your own parish also.
He for one was not at all certain that he could get through even one Sunday of banns without voicing violent objections.
She had been engaged to the Earl of Wendover, and it was after the banns had been read the third time that she eloped to Gretna with Lord Snelgar.
So three days calling the banns and negotiating the marriage contract.