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hetærism, hetairism|hɪˈtɪərɪz(ə)m, hɛˈtaɪrɪz(ə)m|
[a. Gr. ἑταιρισµός, f. ἑταιρίζειν to be a courtesan, f. ἑταίρα hetæra: see -ism.]
1. Open concubinage.
1860Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 417/2 It is said that hetærism, with its Phrynes and Aspasias, is so far becoming a recognised institution. 1865Pall Mall G. 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. Anthropol. Applied by Sir J. Lubbock to a supposed primitive form of the sexual relations: communal marriage in a tribe.
1870Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. iii. 67 The primitive condition of man socially was one of pure Hetairism..or, as we may for convenience call it, Communal marriage where every man and woman..were..equally married to one another. 1876H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. (1877) I. 662 Thought by several writers to imply that the primitive condition was one of unqualified hetairism.
Hence hetairist, -istic a.
1876Athenæum 11 Nov. 627/1. |