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What does concubinage mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married.
  2. The state of being a concubine.
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Ruled by her father, her husband or her son, she could be sold into marriage, concubinage or prostitution.
In order to remedy this marriage, fosterage, gossipred, and even concubinage with the Irish was declared high treason.
In the former princely states, as also in the zamindaries till their abolition soon after independence, concubinage was a recognised custom.
Satlow then discusses levirate marriage, polygyny and concubinage.
Gratian ascribed to the concubinage relationship the quality of marital affection which the Roman jurists had reserved for marriage unions.
In the ecclesiastical model of marriage, the interdiction against concubinage is clear.

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