| 单词 | under coverture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder coverture a. Law. The condition or position of a woman during her married life, when she is by law under the authority and protection of her husband. Also in under coverture (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > condition or position of coverture1542 under covert1563 under covert-baron1581 matronage?1585 matronship1831 matronhood1836 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII c. 22 The freholde of his wife, during the couerture between them. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvi. 305 If the Soule had hild her selfe in awe and vnder couerture. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §20. 10 This grant shall not bind the husband dureing the coverture. 1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. v. 179 If a freeman marry a bondwoman, she is also free during the coverture. 1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xviii. 656 B. afterwards died under coverture, no entry having been made on her behalf to avoid the fine. 1868 M. E. Braddon Dead-Sea Fruit II. vii His accomplished wife could scarcely be subjected to..imprisonment..while sheltered by the ægis of her coverture. < as lemmas |
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