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Cohabitation   /koʊhˌæbətˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Cohabitation

noun
1.
The act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married).






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"Cohabitation" Quotes from Famous Books



... factor. The pea weevil is the largest of our Bruchidae. When it attains the adult stage, it requires a certain amplitude of lodging, which the other weevils do not require in the same degree. A pea provides it with a sufficiently spacious cell; nevertheless, the cohabitation of two in one pea would be impossible; there would be no room, even were the two to put up with a certain discomfort. Hence the necessity of an inevitable decimation, which will suppress all the ...
— A Book of Exposition • Homer Heath Nugent

... persons.] Previously, however, all their rare clothing and finery that they had put on for ornament was taken away, so that in such a chamber they must be quite naked and merely dwell with each other. [It is not directly understood by these words that a cohabitation in modern sense (coition) is meant. According to modern language the passage must be rendered, "had to dwell near each other naked and bare." One is reminded, moreover, of the nuptial customs that are observed particularly in the marriage of persons of high birth. In any case and, in spite ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

... other at a convenient season.{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} Therefore, if any one shall have dared, contrary to the Apostolic Canons, to deprive any one in holy orders, that is, any presbyter, deacon, or subdeacon, of cohabitation and intercourse with his lawful wife, let him be deposed; likewise also if any presbyter or deacon, on pretence of piety, puts away his wife, let him be excluded from communion; but if he persists ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

... sympathetic. In many families it is still the custom to treat childhood frankly as a state of sin, and impudently proclaim the monstrous principle that little children should be seen and not heard, and to enforce a set of prison rules designed solely to make cohabitation with children as convenient as possible for adults without the smallest regard for the interests, either remote or immediate, of the children. This system tends to produce a tough, rather brutal, stupid, unscrupulous class, ...
— A Treatise on Parents and Children • George Bernard Shaw



Words linked to "Cohabitation" :   cohabit, inhabitancy, habitation, inhabitation, concubinage



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