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comparative more companionate, superlative most companionate
(now historical) Designating a proposed type of marriage (or other partnership) in which the partners plan to have no children and take on no legal obligations to one another.
Friendly, companionable. examples
Pertaining to a (chiefly romantic) relationship that emphasises companionship and mutual respect. quotations examples
Gradually it evolved from an economic enterprise to a companionate one—a free-choice engagement between two individuals, based not on duty and obligation but on love and affection.
2017, Esther Perel, The State of Affairs