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Definition of Concubinage
1. Noun. Cohabitation without being legally married.
Definition of Concubinage
1. n. The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.
Definition of Concubinage
1. Noun. The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being a concubine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Concubinage
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concubinage
Literary usage of Concubinage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful by Emanuel Swedenborg (1871)
"ON concubinage. 462. IN the preceding chapter, in treating on fornication, we
treated also on keeping a mistress; by which was understood the connection of ..."
2. The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family by Charles Jean Marie Letourneau (1895)
"I. concubinage in General. As a connecting link between polygamy and monogamy,
concubinage deserves special study. Between institutions, as between ..."
3. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"During the Empire there existed a recognized quasi-matrimonial relation of the
sexes, — namely concubinage.232 It was monogamous: it was unlawful for a man ..."
4. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"For the purpose of concubinage.—When the indictment is under a statute which
makes it a crime to take away a female for the purpose of concubinage, ..."
5. The Law of the Church: A Cyclopedia of Canon Law for English-speaking Countries by Ethelred Luke Taunton (1906)
"concubinage 1. concubinage is the state of having or being a concubine; ...
There is private and public concubinage. 3. Public concubinage is not only that ..."
6. Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: After which Follow Pleasures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1833)
"concubinage is here treated of for the sake of order ; for from order it is
discovered of what quality marriage is on the one part, and of what quality ..."
7. The Monthly Reviewby Ralph Griffiths by Ralph Griffiths (1786)
"More criminal than concubinage in the Roman church xxix. 270.' — Ceremony among
the Jews of Barbary xxxi. ..."
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