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Meanings of concubinage in English
Usage of concubinage in English
1
Polygamy was rare, monogamy the rule; but the right of concubinage was unlimited.
2
The 28th verse of the fourth Sura does by no means sanction concubinage.
3
The President asked her if she admitted having lived in concubinage with Brotteaux.
4
From the ecclesiastic point of view, he was living in concubinage.
5
There is no honor attached to the married state and no shame to concubinage.
6
There is also improvement in regard to concubinage among them.
7
While this concubinage continues, actual connection with a wife is not allowable, n. 476.
8
The government takes no notice of concubinage, and publishes no statistics in regard to it.
9
Of the excusatory causes of this concubinage some are real and some not, n. 471.
10
Does he not live in a state of concubinage?
11
This has led to other irregularities, such as reckless, continual, and fraudulent gambling, and concubinage.
12
She lived with him about one year in a state of concubinage and then left him.
13
They might have lived together in concubinage, and no one would have thought much about it.
14
Polyandry is considered swinish, and concubinage is unknown.
15
This sacred book, this foundation of human liberty, of morality, does it teach concubinage and polygamy?
16
The problem is not in marriage, but in sex; and would be felt under the freest concubinage.
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