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单词 hetaerism
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hetaerismhetairismn.

/hɪˈtɪərɪz(ə)m/ /hɛˈtaɪrɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: < Greek ἑταιρισμός, < ἑταιρίζειν to be a courtesan, < ἑταίρα hetaera n.: see -ism suffix.
1. Open concubinage.
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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
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.
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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.
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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).
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