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(of a marriage or other relationship) not having been consummated.
‘a loveless, unconsummated marriage’
‘any alliance with Lovejoy remains frustratingly unconsummated’
‘Afterwards, the marriage unconsummated, Catherine has numerous affairs and begins to curry favour with the army.’
‘There is also a homely, unworldly duo, Mitch and Mickey, played by Catherine O'Hara and Levy: a pair deeply traumatised by their unspoken, unconsummated love for each other.’
‘Controversially, in 1997 she published Emma in Love, an update of Jane Austen's novel in which Emma leaves her marriage to Mr Knightley unconsummated and falls passionately in love with a French baroness.’
‘Doughty-Wylie was married, and the relationship between them was fated to be unconsummated and secret.’
‘In 1853, while painting his portrait in Scotland, Millais fell in love with Ruskin's wife Effie, the victim of an unconsummated marriage, whom he wed in 1855.’
‘The story of unconsummated middle-class adultery began life as a one-act play, Still Life, in the compilation Tonight at 8.30.’
‘You may be seeing more patients with a long-ignored but serious problem: unconsummated marriage.’
‘It's about John Ruskin's unconsummated marriage to the Countess Euphemia, or Effie.’
‘Male-female friendship with an unconsummated erotic subtext becomes much healthier for a woman because it obliterates the potential for pain that always seems to accompany romantic involvement.’
‘Edouard was very attractive to women, but he also had loves that were unconsummated, yet still very significant, with men.’
‘The unconsummated love between Cathy and Heathcliff had perhaps more to do with being personifications of the very land they lived on.’
‘His undergraduate relationship with Hughes was physical but unconsummated, as was quite normal in the early 1950s, a period when comparatively few students were having sex.’
‘The novelist himself lived for many years in unconsummated love with a happily married woman who accepted him as part of her family.’
‘His unconsummated relationship with the milkwoman, played with a smouldering air by Barbara Flynn, was a metaphor for all his missed opportunities.’
‘They marry, but the marriage is kept secret and unconsummated for a year.’
‘Irving can't conceal his vicarious delight in this unconsummated passion, ‘which remained a crush, at room's length, no more’.’
‘Two years on, he has become her protector, her unconsummated lover, her student - and her only prison visitor.’
‘First there is Meghan, an auburn-haired beauty, whose friend Clara is beaten by her husband on her wedding night, has her unconsummated marriage annulled and enters a convent in 1916.’
‘I stood on the bemired beach with Dianna on the first month anniversary of her unconsummated marriage.’
‘Stopes' first marriage was unconsummated and then annulled in 1916 and so she found herself researching the subject.’