adjective
- relating to a marriage between a person of high rank and one of lower rank, where the spouse and children do not inherit the higher rank or property
Usage: historical; formal
Examples
- The prince entered into a morganatic marriage with the commoner.
- Their morganatic union meant the children could not inherit the throne.
- The king’s morganatic wife held no royal title.
- Morganatic marriages were common among European nobility.
- The duchess’s morganatic marriage caused scandal at court.
- His morganatic children were excluded from succession.