单词 | hetaerism |
释义 | hetaerismhetairismn. 1. Open concubinage. 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 1860 Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 417/2 It is said that hetærism, with its Phrynes and Aspasias, is so far becoming a recognised institution. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 9/2 Beginning to recognize the existence of hetærism, not only as a fact, but as a thing to be talked about in drawing-rooms. 2. Cultural Anthropology. Applied by Sir J. Lubbock to a supposed primitive form of the sexual relations: communal marriage in a tribe. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > group-marriage pantagamy1852 hetaerism1870 marriage1870 group marriage1880 punalua1922 1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) iii. 67 The primitive condition of man, socially, was one of pure Hetairism..or as we may perhaps for convenience call it, Communal marriage, where every man and woman..were..equally married to one another. 1876 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 662 Thought by several writers to imply that the primitive condition was one of unqualified hetairism. Derivatives hetairist adj. hetairistic adj. ΚΠ 1876 Athenæum 11 Nov. 627/1. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1860 |
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