different between premarriage vs href

English

pre- +? marriage

premarriage (not comparable)

premarriage (countable and uncountable, plural premarriages)

A period of time before marriage.
- 2012, Cait London, Last Dance
  If we have to start inspecting premarriages and I have to give birth control advice to every innocent woman those boys decide […]
- 2013, Marni Jameson, House of Havoc: How to Make--and Keep--a Beautiful Home Despite Cheap Spouses, Messy Kids, and Other Difficult Rommates
  There I have dumped willy-nilly into a giant coffin-sized plastic bin of photos that dated back to premarriage and children.

From Proto-West Germanic *hrif (“guts, belly”). Compare Old English hrif (“stomach”).

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