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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Word History and Origins

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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