MISALLIANCE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Misalliance

... mortification, real even though they were conventional, she would have to endure in the face of society. That the de Laneys, social leaders, rigid in respectability, should be forced to the humiliation of acknowledging a misalliance, should be forced to the added humiliation of confessing that this marriage was not only with a family of inferior social standing, but with one actually unlettered and vulgar! Bennington knew only too well the temper ...

— The Claim Jumpers • Stewart Edward White