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Definition of Bride price
1. Noun. Money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride.
Definition of Bride price
1. Noun. A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bride Price
Literary usage of Bride price
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"The bride-price is a compensation for the loss sustained in the giving up of the
girl, and a remuneration for the expenses incurred in her maintenance till ..."
2. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"In this connection or the regulations of the bride-price based on the rank of
the groom's father, on the bride's previous condition of maidenhood, ..."
3. Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Claude Hermann Walter Johns (1904)
"If a man, who has presented a gift to the house of his pro- Penalty tor spective
father-in-law and has given the bride-price, has afterward ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This bride-price was usually handed over by her father to the bride on her ...
The bride-price varied much, according to the position of the parties, ..."
5. The Old-fashioned Woman: Primitive Fancies about the Sex by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1913)
"... ducats for their concubines.10 A maximum bride-price is sometimes fixed. ...
Kabyle who accepts a greater bride-price than thirty-five reals, ..."
6. The Native Tribes of South-east Australia by Alfred William Howitt (1904)
"There is no allocation in the Salic law of the bride-price of a woman on her
first marriage.1 The bride-price evidently was for the purchase of a woman from ..."
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