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单词 concubine
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concubinen.

/ˈkɒŋkjuːbʌɪn/
Forms: Also Middle English -bin, -byn, Middle English–1500s -byne.
Etymology: < French concubin, concubine < Latin concubīnus, concubīna, < con- together + cubāre to lie.
1. A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a kept mistress.In reference to polygamous peoples, as the ancient Hebrews and the Muslims: A ‘secondary wife’ whose position is recognized by law, but is inferior to that of a wife.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > concubinage or secondary marriage > concubine or secondary wife
concubine1297
concuby1560
concupy1609
secondary wife1847
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > a mistress
chevesea700
wifeOE
bed-sister1297
concubine1297
leman1297
file1303
speciala1400
womanc1400
chamberer?a1425
mistress?a1439
cousin1470
doxy?1515
doll1560
pinnacea1568
nobsya1575
lier-by1583
sweetheart1589
she-friend1600
miss1606
underput1607
concupy1609
lig-by1610
factoress1611
leveret1617
night-piece1621
belly-piece1632
dolly1648
lie-bya1656
madamc1660
small girl1671
natural1674
convenient1676
lady of the lake1678
pure1688
tackle1688
sultana1703
kind girl1712
bosom-slave1728
pop1785
chère amie1792
fancy-woman1819
hetaera1820
fancy-piece1821
poplolly1821
secondary wife1847
other woman1855
fancy-girl1892
querida1902
wifelet1983
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 27 Astrilde hire bedsuster (hire lordes concubine).
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8887 O quens had he [sc. Solomon] hundrets seuen; Thre hundret concubins, he sais, Efter þe laghes war in þaa dais.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 650 He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn A good felawe to haue his concubyn A twelf monthe.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xxv. 6 Sotheli he ȝaf ȝiftis to the sones of concubyns [1382 secoundarye wyues].
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 67 He [sc. the cardinal] hath a concubyne, whom he moche loueth.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 155 Prestre, a preeste; presteresse, a preestes concubyne.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 58/2 As she wist herself to simple to be his wife, so thought she her self to good to be his concubine. [Cf. Shakespeare 3 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 98.]
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 373 After the phrase of the Scripture a concubine is an honest name; for every concubine is a lawful wife, but every wife is not a concubine.
1611 Bible (King James) Dan. v. 3.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 365 Women-servants, whom they hired of their Masters for Concubines.
1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xi. 452 The most essential difference between γυνὴ and παλλακὴ, wife and concubine, consisted in the former having a dowry, and the latter none.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. iii. 183 Two wives, with as many concubines, is reckoned a liberal establishment for the middle classes.
figurative.1843 F. W. Faber Lett. (1869) 207 If we are not now in the One Church, but in a Concubine (so long as it be a doubt).attributive.1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 19 A man may have 4 wives at the same time, and, according to common opinion, as many concubine slaves as he pleases.
2. A male paramour. Obsolete. [= Latin concubīnus, French concubin.]
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > illicit male lover
leman1297
concubinec1430
lover1611
fancy man1811
other man1886
other guy1953
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes iii. xxiv. 95 a Because she had had another concubyne.
?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman ii. iv. sig. b.ijv Thou haste stomacke inough to handle the vyles and scabbes of thy concubyne.
c1536 Indictment Anne Boleyn (Trench) Her adulterers and concubines.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

concubinev.

Etymology: < concubine n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈconcubine.
rare.
1. transitive. To take as a concubine. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (transitive)] > take as a concubine
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concubinizea1808
1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 77 Not onely marrying Pharaohs daughter..but also concubining many.
2. To furnish with a concubine or concubines.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (transitive)] > furnish with a concubine
concubine1800
1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 8 728 The proud, inflated Lord, With father concubin'd, and mother whor'd.
1890 H. M. Stanley In Darkest Afr. II. xxvii. 226 These must be wived, concubined, and fed by the natives.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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