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concubinage|kənˈkjuːbɪnɪdʒ|
[a. F. concubinage (15th c. in Littré), f. concubin: see -age.]
The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the practice of having a concubine; the state of being a concubine.
1388Wyclif Levit. xviii. 18 Thou schalt not take the sister of thi wijf, in to concubynage of hir. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 25 This is not concubinage, but mariage. 1692Sir T. P. Blount Ess. 31 Indulging Concubinage to the Professors of Chastity. 1828Scott F.M. Perth ii, Many women..had risen to greatness from a state of concubinage. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 277 Priests living in a state of concubinage and burthened with illegitimate children. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. i. iii. 31 Clerical concubinage was still the rule in England.
b. In Roman Law: (see quot.).
1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) II. iii. v. 24 Concubinage, a kind of inferior marriage of which the issue were natural children, not bastards. |