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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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She was living in concubinage with the father of her children at the moment of her conversion.
In the former princely states, as also in the zamindaries till their abolition soon after independence, concubinage was a recognised custom.
In order to remedy this marriage, fosterage, gossipred, and even concubinage with the Irish was declared high treason.
Similarly out of joint is the notion that Rachel's example in Genesis 30 would be taken by fundamentalists as justification for concubinage.
He fled with a bounty on his head and his sisters were abducted and forced into concubinage anyway.
Gratian ascribed to the concubinage relationship the quality of marital affection which the Roman jurists had reserved for marriage unions.

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