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Definition of Hetaerism
1. Noun. A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers. Synonym: "primitive promiscuity". Spelling variant: "hetairism". ¹
2. Noun. An ancient Greek custom according to which a man's wife was forbidden to accompany him to many public events, including the banquets or ''symposia'' which made up a large part of Greek social life, and where men sought out the company of courtesans or ''hetaerae'' instead. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hetaerism
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hetaerism
Literary usage of Hetaerism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eros: The Development of the Sex Relation Through the Ages by Emil Lucka (1915)
""In the place of the annual surrender," says Priester, "we now have a single act;
the hetaerism of the matrons is succeeded by the ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A primitive hetaerism without any permanent marital relation is claimed to be
the basis of the later evolution. The first stage of this development, ..."
3. A History of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"In discoursing of Ancient Greece, with its conflicting systems of philosophy,
its hetaerism, and its love of sensuous beauty; or in laying his scene in the ..."
4. The Impossibility of Social Democracy: Being a Supplement to "The by Albert Schäffle (1892)
"But I have still to draw attention to the fact thata refined hetaerism anda modern
system of tribal or horde-management of children is not necessary to ..."
5. Woman in the Past, Present and Future by August Bebel (1897)
"In any case, however, this service of love was the idolization of the beloved
object at the expense—of the legitimate wife, a hetaerism that had been ..."
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