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Definition of Concubines
1. concubine [n] - See also: concubine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concubines
Literary usage of Concubines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"Afterwards we read that Abraham had concubines. (Gen. xxv. 6. ... But besides
her, he had two concubines, namely, Hagar and Keturah ; by these he had other ..."
2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"All the Emperor's daughters, and the children of his concubines, as foon as they
were of a proper age, ..."
3. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"The humble but legal rights of concubines and natural children are stated in the
Institutes, (1. i. tit. x.,1 the Pandects, (1. i. tit. tii.,) the Code, ..."
4. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1892)
"We are thus prepared for the information that the Inca, as representative Theywere
of the Sun, was husband of all these concubines consecrated women. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"concubines are rarely, if ever, employed by unmarried men— at least among the
Japanese ; I do not refer to the foreign element —it being regarded as a grave ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"The majority of for concubines, to SUPPLY the STEWS children brought from the
hills," says AND ... concubines ..."
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