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comˈpanionate, a.
[f. as prec. + -ate2.]
†1. Companioned, accompanied. Obs.
1657S. W. Schism Dispach't 470 A rationally-companionate minde.
2. Phr. companionate marriage (occas. companionate mating), a form of marriage which provides for divorce by mutual consent and in which neither partner has any legal responsibilites towards the other; = cohabitation 2. Also ellipt.
1924M. M. Knight in Jrnl. Social Hygiene X. 257 (heading) The companionate and the family—the undeserved division of an historical institution. 1926E. R. Groves Drifting Home ix. 210 In recent years a rival of the orthodox family has appeared in what is well termed the companionate. Ibid. 211 The great majority of the companionate matings are from the first attempts at permanent childlessness. 1927Lindsey & Evans Companionate Marriage (1928) p.v, Companionate Marriage is legal marriage, with legalized Birth Control, and with the right to divorce by mutual consent for childless couples, usually without payment of alimony. 1927Weekly Disp. 26 June 1 There has arisen a group within the Church in America which sanctions an ‘open mind’ on the subject of relations between the sexes without marriage, provided birth control is exercised. This group employs the high-sounding phrase of ‘companionate marriage’. 1932B. Russell Educ. & Social Order ix. 125 Continence during the years of adolescence would impose no intolerable burden if there were a prospect that the necessity for it would ease at about..twenty. This could be secured by Judge Lindsey's system of companionate marriage. |