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celestial marriage
noun
- the rite or state of marriage, performed in a Mormon temple by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and believed to continue beyond death.
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Origin of celestial marriage1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Strang’s first “celestial marriage” was to an intelligent young woman named Elvira Field.
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One day Joseph was chatting about celestial marriage with Brigham and the unmarried Fanny Young.
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Heber stunned his daughter by telling her that her close friend, Sarah Ann Whitney, had already joined Joseph in celestial marriage.
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A farm girl who survived the brutal wagon march west from Nauvoo resists an arranged “celestial marriage” to an aging Mormon bishop — until a plague of locusts descends on their valley.
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Her only hope of a future life depends upon her being united in "celestial marriage" to some man.
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