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Definition of Sororate
1. Noun. The custom of the marriage of a man to the sister of his wife, usually after the wife has died. ¹
2. Noun. A marriage according to this custom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sororate
1. the marriage of a man usually with his deceased wife's sister [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sororate
Literary usage of Sororate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"This intimate correlation is rightly insisted upon by Frazer, who has collected
instances of the sororate from all regions of the globe. ..."
2. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"On the basis of Tylor's theory we should expect the levi- rate and the sororate
to coexist, and in very large measure they undoubtedly do, ..."
3. Violence Against Women in South Africa: The State Response to Domestic by Binaifer Nowrojee, Bronwen Manby, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1995)
"... of rules relating to infertility, including the duty of a younger sister to
take the place of a wife who is unable to bear children (the sororate), ..."
4. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"And sometimes—as in the case ,of. obligatory levirate, sororate, and cross-cousin
marriage—the choice of partners may be entirely independent of all ..."
5. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"... which I have postulated as the original from which both the levirate and the
sororate have been derived by a process of fission. See above, vol. ii. pp. ..."
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