单词 | concubinage |
释义 | concubinagen. a. The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the practice of having a concubine; the state of being a concubine. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > concubinage or secondary marriage concubinagea1425 concubinate1539 concubinacy1609 secondary marriage1788 hetaerism1860 secondary union1950 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xviii. 18 Thou schalt not take the sister of thi wijf, in to concubynage of hir. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 25 This is not concubinage, but mariage. 1692 T. P. Blount Ess. 31 Indulging Concubinage to the Professors of Chastity. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 32 Many women..had risen to greatness from a state of concubinage. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 277 Priests living in a state of concubinage and burthened with illegitimate children. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. iii. 31 Clerical concubinage was still the rule in England. b. In Roman Law: (see quot. 1854). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > concubinage or secondary marriage > specific concubinage1854 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. v. 369 Concubinage, a kind of inferior marriage, of which the issue were natural children not bastards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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