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Concubinage   /kɑnkjˈubənədʒ/   Listen
Concubinage

noun
1.
Cohabitation without being legally married.






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"Concubinage" Quotes from Famous Books



... married by a Roman Catholic priest, in the manner prescribed by the law of the state, and that law did not recognize the legal validity of a marriage, celebrated in any other form. The consequence was, that in the eye of the law, the marriage of Protestants was a mere concubinage, and the offspring of it illegitimate. To his immortal honour, Lewis the XVIth, by his edict of the 17th of November, 1787, accorded to all his Non-catholic subjects the full and complete enjoyment of all the rights of his Roman-catholic subjects. On a division in the Parliament, this edict was ...
— The Life of Hugo Grotius • Charles Butler



Words linked to "Concubinage" :   cohabitation



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