Alimony

/ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/ · noun

Meaning

(law, sometimes derogatory) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person..

Definitions by Sense

1. (law, sometimes derogatory) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.
2. (obsolete) Nourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit.

Example Sentences

In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life.

Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.

Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]

[…]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]

[…] What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.

His manner is to put three or foure ſtones into a ſpoone, and ſo putting them into his mouth together, ſvvallovvs them all dovvn one after another; […] [H]aving the advantage of this ſtrange vvay of alimony, he ſold his allovvance of provant at great rates; […]

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