Concubinage

Word CONCUBINAGE
Character 11
Hyphenation con cu bi nage
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Concubinage"

What do we mean by concubinage?

Cohabitation without legal marriage. noun

The state of being a concubine. noun

The act or practice of cohabiting without a legal marriage. noun

The state of being a concubine. noun

In Rom, law concubinatus, a permanent cohabitation, recognized by the law, between persons to whose marriage there were no legal obstacles. noun

A natural marriage, as contradistinguished from a civil marriage. noun

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine. noun

A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine. noun

The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married. noun

The state of being a concubine. noun

Cohabitation without being legally married noun

The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married.

The state of being or keeping a concubine.

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The word "concubinage" in example sentences

a courtezan, and the term concubinage to the latter, because a concubine is a substituted partner of the bed, therefore for the sake of distinction, ante-nuptial stipulation with a woman is signified by keeping a mistress, and post-nuptial by concubinage. ❋ Emanuel Swedenborg (1730)

While she and Constantius were a love match, their only choice was to live together in concubinage, an accepted form of cohabitation for people of different social status. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Fornication of such a gross kind as (exists) not even among the heathen, so that one (of you) hath (in concubinage) his father's wife," that is, his stepmother, while his father is still alive (2Co 7: 12; compare Le 18: 8). ❋ Unknown (1871)

The polygamy and concubinage which is sanctioned in the Koran, has degraded the women to a degree that may be imagined, and certainly has not, as some authorities contend, abolished other evils. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Contrary practices, such as concubinage, were still tolerated, but they counted for little in the social organism. ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)

Ph. Schaff, W.J. Mann describes the relation of the General Synod to the Methodists and Presbyterians as a "concubinage" with the sects. ❋ Unknown (1894)

The Court held that a same - gender relationship could not constitute "concubinage" for the purpose of terminating alimony. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Former husband sought to terminate his alimony payments which were made pursuant to a separation agreement because his wife began cohabitating with another women, which he claimed ran afoul of the "concubinage" restriction in the agreement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"I'm reminded of the first Christian legislators, who didn't quickly abolish the tolerant Roman laws regarding practices which didn't conform to the natural law, or which were actually contrary to it, such as concubinage and slavery," Cardinal Cottier wrote. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(fornication) is always distinct from porneia can also mean "concubinage," "marriage between relatives" forbidden by the Mosaic Law ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is reason to believe that it was about this period that "concubinage" became an institution which was more than tolerated by society. [ ❋ Unknown (1885)

Other freedmen showed that they were “habitually guilty of thieving and of concubinage.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

White women were believed to "grieve" more than Black women forced into concubinage, raped, or enslaved in prostitution. ❋ Melissa Ditmore (2011)

So concubinage has been an institution for thousands of years and the Chinese have always had an exceptionally pragmatic attitude toward sex. ❋ Tom Doctoroff (2011)

The very existence of kinship depends on the protection of females from rape, degradation, and concubinage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This was but the outward numerical fact of social dislocation; within lay polygamy, polyandry, concubinage, and moral degradation. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

He had an interest in literature that dealt with "polygamy, infidelity, concubinage, and prostitution." ❋ Javier Espinoza (2010)

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