To entice you, I’m going to offer up a book. I mentioned that I’ve been reading Marriage: a History, and it has been fascinating. So, I’m going to buy one of you a copy. All you have to do is take my challenge.

The challenge: Define marriage.

That’s it. The rules:

• The contest is open all week. Leave your definition as a comment by 11:59 PM EDT on Saturday, May 3rd. I’ll announce a winner Sunday… or perhaps Monday.
• I’m looking for a dictionary definition, not an encyclopedia entry, so you need to keep in short. One or two sentences tops.
• No commentary on other definitions. You don’t have to agree with someone else’s definition, but this post is not the place to haggle… much less argue.
• I will be ordering the book from Amazon, so entry is limited to whomever I can ship to without incurring obscene shipping fees.
• Kerri and I are the sole judges of all entries. We reserve the right to moderate or edit comments; qualify or disqualify entries; and determine what “obscene” shipping fees are. (We’ll know them if we see them.)

Good luck, and now go put your inner word smith to work!

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