Theodore not only led an exemplary life, but forbade the officers of his household and the chiefs more immediately around him to live in concubinage.

The President asked her if she admitted having lived in concubinage with Brotteaux.

From the ecclesiastic point of view, he was living in concubinage.

They were setting at defiance the laws of celibacy; they not only sought wives, but they lived in concubinage.

Consequently, this sin is specially inhibited to priests by the Church, lest anyone hear the mass of one living in concubinage.