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levirate::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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The biblical institution of a levirate marriage was a form of polygyny.
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This levirate marriage helps provide support for her and increases his number of wives.
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All tribes practiced sororate and levirate marriages.
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Efforts by Henry to appeal to Jewish scholarship concerning the contours of levirate marriage were unavailing as well.
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He's single, and under the little-known levirate law, a single man must wed his brother's widow if the marriage produced no children.
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It is believed, but not historically verified, that Bumbutai married Dorgon after Hong Taiji's death, since levirate marriage was a common practice among Mongols then.
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In Korowai society the forms of institutional levirate and predominance of avuncular relationships are found, as well as a kind of affinal avoidance relationships.
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Emerton regards the evidence for this to be inconclusive, although classical rabbinical writers argued that this narrative describes the origin of levirate marriage.
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- The biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line
- Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obligated to marry his brother's widow, and the widow is obligated to marry her deceased husband's brother. ...
- A social custom under which a man has both the right to marry his dead brother's widow and the obligation to provide for her.
