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Definition of Concubinages
1. concubinage [n] - See also: concubinage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concubinages
Literary usage of Concubinages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Such concubinages, while not put on a level with marriage, were entered into
without stigma, as it was assumed that without extraordinary supply of divine ..."
2. Huldreich Zwingli, the Reformer of German Switzerland, 1484-1531 by Samuel Macauley Jackson, John Martin Vincent, Frank Hugh Foster (1903)
"... but none the less reprehensible, concubinages were and had long been common —
in such a relation Zwingli himself lived for two years — but for a priest ..."
3. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"And he again complains, with the deepest grief and anguish, of the infamous and
promiscuous concubinages, which set so shocking an example, ..."
4. The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, William Smith, Leonhard Schmitz, Julius Charles Hare, Connop Thirlwall (1832)
"... they were not concubinages: the only difference was, that, though the father
was a patrician, the children belonged to the same order with their mother. ..."
5. The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political by William Ewart Gladstone (1874)
"J The upshot, then, seems to "be this: that Rome, while stigmatising marriages
not Tridentine as concubinages iu the manner we have seen, reserves a power, ..."
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