| 单词 | secondary union |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecondary union c. Of a lower kind; entitled in a lower degree to the appellation. secondary wife n. †(a) a concubine; (b) a socially or legally recognized inferior wife in some societies; similarly secondary consort. Also secondary marriage n. (a) concubinage; (b) marriage to a secondary wife (sense secondary wife n. (b)). similarly secondary union. 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 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 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxv. 6 To the sonys forsothe of the secondarye wyues [L. concubinarum] he ȝaue ȝiftis. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxii. 24, Judges viii. 31, Song of Sol. vi. 7. 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. i. i. 24 Servants in families ought to be considered as secondary children, and have due instruction [etc.]. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xliv. 382 From the age of Augustus to the tenth century, the use of this secondary marriage [i.e. concubinage] prevailed both in the West and East. 1847 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Eng. X. ii. 328 He likewise obliged the princess to receive at her court, and to countenance the duke of Monmouth's mistress, or secondary wife, Lady Harriet Wentworth. 1924 D. Hosie Two Gentlemen China (ed. 2) ix. 91 The ladies of the household..often wield a power that must be reckoned with, if they are fond of intrigue, like a certain secondary wife of an official of our acquaintance. 1930 W. F. Sands Undiplomatic Memories (1931) 69 From kitchenmaid she was raised to the first rank of secondary consorts..and in due course became the mother of the monarch's third son. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 80 101/2 In view of the difficulty of establishing the exact nature of the forms of ‘secondary marriage’, ‘the doctrine of presumption of marriage now applies to the Chinese’. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 80 103/1 A..significant shift of a class of women from the status of kept mistresses to that of secondary wives. 1950 I. Schapera in A. R. Radcliffe-Brown & D. Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 149 A ‘secondary union’..is merely an extension of an existing marriage. Its essential character is that, for the purposes of child-bearing, one of the original parties..is replaced by another person of the same sex, who is regarded as a bodily substitute, and not as an independent spouse. 1970 J. M. Meskill in M. Freedman Family & Kinship in China 148 In the Wu-feng Lin genealogy..secondary wives..are recorded as well as main wives. < as lemmas |
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