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How to use concubinage in a sentence

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In the ecclesiastical model of marriage, the interdiction against concubinage is clear.
He fled with a bounty on his head and his sisters were abducted and forced into concubinage anyway.
Similarly out of joint is the notion that Rachel's example in Genesis 30 would be taken by fundamentalists as justification for concubinage.
In the former princely states, as also in the zamindaries till their abolition soon after independence, concubinage was a recognised custom.
Gratian ascribed to the concubinage relationship the quality of marital affection which the Roman jurists had reserved for marriage unions.
Ruled by her father, her husband or her son, she could be sold into marriage, concubinage or prostitution.
She was living in concubinage with the father of her children at the moment of her conversion.
Satlow then discusses levirate marriage, polygyny and concubinage.
Yet rampant corruption, entrenched patriarchy, and a long history of concubinage also play a role.
Supposedly, prostitution, concubinage, bride-selling, slavery and drug addiction were abolished.
Yasa permitted the institutions of polygamy and concubinage so characteristic of southerly nomadic peoples.
The revolution enabled women to advance by magnitudes over their previous miserable status rooted in the old Confucian order in such practices as forced marriage and concubinage.
On May Day 1950, the government promulgated a Marriage Law that banned concubinage and arranged marriages while giving women the right of divorce and to own property.
A related function was concubinage, unquestionably one of the major uses of female slaves since the beginning of the institution and particularly prevalent in China.
Polygamy and concubinage were rare but existed, at least among the upper classes.
The authorities classed such women as priests' concubines and there is evidence that a formal contract of concubinage existed between priests and their women.
The council prohibited marriage, concubinage, and drunkenness to all those in holy orders, condemned sodomy and simony, and regulated clerical dress.
He traveled to the major cities of Europe to deal with the church's moral problems firsthand, notably simony and clerical marriage and concubinage.
Examples from Classical Literature
To compensate for this, concubinage was largely indulged in by the wealthy.
Slavery, polygamy, and concubinage exist throughout the Kelat state and Baluchi area.
In order to remedy this marriage, fosterage, gossipred, and even concubinage with the Irish was declared high treason.
The foregoing account shows that the bant marriage is a good deal more than concubinage.
At no period of Roman history are there any traces of polygamy or concubinage.
But no one will blame the same student for living in concubinage with a grisette.
Widows are not allowed to re-marry, but may live in a state of concubinage.
The right of concubinage was too extensive to bring condemnation for unchastity.
Every nubile maid in the yashiki was a candidate for concubinage.
Foot-binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and illiteracy were commonplace.
The logic of concubinage is embraced in this last reply, I think.
The cases of slaveholding and concubinage are totally different.
And this, without hint of the guilt of violence, concubinage, and theft.
Of the excusatory causes of this concubinage some are real and some not.
Such a marriage was, indeed, nothing but a form of concubinage.
Some newly wealthy Chinese men used the money for concubinage and prostitution, promoting male dominated culture.
The villagers no longer tolerated concubinage and were suspicious of any dealings between women and priests.
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