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How to pronounce concubinage in English?

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Type of cohabitation

Examples of concubinage

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Means Islam accepted slavery and concubinage considering it a social need.
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A mere dozen Mexican priests were in attendance, some of them living in open concubinage.
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Here, the Church dealt with issues of simony, concubinage of the clergy.
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It banned arranged marriages, concubinage and child betrothal.
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The impetus for the reforms was corruption within the church, particularly simony and concubinage.
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Concubinage differed from marriage chiefly in the status of children born from the relationship.
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In 1950, he announced a new marriage law, banning forced marriages, domestic abuse and concubinage.
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In Louisiana and former French territories, a formalized system of concubinage called placage developed.
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The nature of this relationship is variously described as concubinage, a legal marriage, or a Friedelehe.
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More examples
  • Cohabitation without being legally married
  • Concubinage is the state of a woman in an ongoing, usually matrimonially-oriented relationship with a man who cannot be married to her, often because of a difference in social status.
  • The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married; The state of being a concubine
  • A women and man living together without being husband and wife