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‖ jus primæ noctis|dʒʌs ˈpraɪmiː ˈnɒktɪs|
[L., right of the first night.]
= droit du seigneur (see droit1 1 b).
1887F. K. Wischnewetzky tr. Engels's Condition of Working-Class in England in 1844 99 Factory servitude..confers the jus primæ noctis upon the master... If the master is mean enough,..his mill is also his harem. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 593/1 Jus primae noctis or droit du seigneur, a custom alleged to have existed in medieval Europe, giving the overlord a right to the virginity of his vassals' daughters on their wedding-night... The jus, it seems, is a myth, invented no earlier than the 16th or 17th century. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay xviii. 250 It was on a splendid subject—the ‘Jus Primæ Noctis, or Droit du Seigneur’. 1933‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xxxiv. 256 He had heard..of..the jus primae noctis (he believed it had really existed). 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 228 No serf, writhing under the law of jus primae noctis,..ever had it worse. 1971Black Scholar Dec. 13/1 The integration of rape into the sparsely furnished legitimate social life of the slaves harks back to the feudal ‘right of the first night’, the jus primae noctis. |