Distention: The state of being distended, enlarged, swollen from internal pressure. For example, on inhalation there is distention of the lungs due to the increased air pressure within the lungs. The word distention comes from a Latin root tendere, to extend. The word tendon comes from the same root.
He and Lady Mary Crawley entered a tumultuous eight-year relationship ending with Matthew's second proposal in early January 1920. Mary finally accepts, five and a half years after the first. They get married in May 1920 and lived together in Downton Abbey.
Cora Crawley (nÃ©e Levinson), Countess of Grantham, Viscountess Downton (b. 1868) is the American heiress daughter of Martha and Isidore Levinson and sister of Harold Levinson. She married Robert Crawley, Viscount Downton who became Earl of Grantham upon his father's death. Lady Grantham has three daughters named Mary, Edith and Sybil, all of whom she loves very much. 18 years after Sybil's birth, Lady Grantham fell pregnant once again with a son, but miscarried.