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<k_ele>
<keb>別婚</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>べっこん</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>separation with divorce in the offing</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2006-09-06 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-09-09 07:32:00" stat="D" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Got here by chance searching "offing". I had to look up "in the offing". I would rewrite with something more widely understood. "in anticipation of divorce", "with divorce likely". *except*, I'm not sure this is a word at all.
Is there kokugo support? This seems like a very specific gloss for a barely-existent term.
The way 別 gets next to 婚 is in strings like in the refs, and like:
シチュエーション別婚活方法
職業別婚活ガイド
年代別の婚活 / 年代別婚活
趣味別の婚活/ 趣味別婚活 ("searching for a marriage partner based on your hobbies", I think)
For example: 「趣味別婚活」の成功率が高い理由
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/makoto/articles/1402/04/news011_3.html
There is a book titled 別婚夫 on amazon, with the tagline:
結婚の持つ脆さ。愛を確信した女と男の信念の強さ。互いに外に愛人を持つ夫と妻。さまざまに揺れ動く男と女の心と性を精緻に描き、結婚は、夫婦の絆とは何かを探った小説。
That doesn't seem to confirm this gloss...
Otherwise, a search for usage is basically fruitless.
別居, separate homes, is "separation", 別居婚 is "commuter marriage". 別婚 seems just as likely to be short for that as anything else. I don't see how we would verify a meaning.
At least two of the (few) google book results that seem to have 別婚 are actually misinterpreted instances of 別嬪(べっぴん). I found one in a reference book, and another in a novel here:
https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=4fBfAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT1285&lpg=PT1285&dq=%22%E5%88%A5%E5%A9%9A%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%22%22&source=bl&ots=PI5gpdtapJ&sig=ACfU3U36_9wUpO8tcRGiypICT5vO9hjXHQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFppC6_5yBAxUrgVYBHRZzB7sQ6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q=%22%E5%88%A5%E5%A9%9A%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%22%22&f=false</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Top 10 N-grams Lookup for 別婚 (Frequency Order)
別婚姻 271
別婚姻件数 214
別婚姻件数の 53
This is part of strings like ("number of marriages separated by..."):
年次別婚姻件数
都道府県別婚姻件数</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-09-10 01:39:01" stat="D">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Yes, the n-grams (26) and the few WWW hits seem to be false positives.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
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