child bride

noun

1. a very young bride.

Word History and Origins

Origin of child bride¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

“I had refused to have sex with him,” one child bride told us.

From The Daily Beast

Already, seven FLDS men have been convicted of either bigamy, arranging child-bride marriages or sex assault of a child.

From The Daily Beast

Margaret (Elizabeth Rice) is young but she is not a child bride.

From The Daily Beast

“But you can not marry her now, Rex,” whispered the little child-bride, nestling closer in his embrace.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet he did not 133 know how to say it; he had never spoken a loving word to any one except Daisy, his fair little child-bride.

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You remember how you fell down senseless by her bedside when we told you the terrible news––the young child-bride was dead?

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We saw too the pitiable child-bride marrying perhaps a man three times her age because he could take care of her.

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Secondly, we find her as a timid and shrinking bride, in fact almost a child-bride.

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