Definition of Concubinages

1. Noun. (plural of concubinage) ¹

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Definition of Concubinages

1. concubinage [n] - See also: concubinage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Concubinages

concretively
concretization
concretizations
concretize
concretized
concretizes
concretizing
concretum
concreture
concrew
concrewed
concrews
concubinacies
concubinacy
concubinage
concubinages (current term)
concubinal
concubinarians
concubinary
concubinate
concubinates
concubines
concupies
concupiscences
concupiscential
concupiscentious

Literary usage of Concubinages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Such concubinages, while not put on a level with marriage, were entered into without stigma, as it was assumed that without extraordinary supply of divine ..."

2. Huldreich Zwingli, the Reformer of German Switzerland, 1484-1531 by Samuel Macauley Jackson, John Martin Vincent, Frank Hugh Foster (1903)
"... but none the less reprehensible, concubinages were and had long been common — in such a relation Zwingli himself lived for two years — but for a priest ..."

3. Lives of the Fathers: Sketches of Church History in Biography by Frederick William Farrar (1889)
"And he again complains, with the deepest grief and anguish, of the infamous and promiscuous concubinages, which set so shocking an example, ..."

4. The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, William Smith, Leonhard Schmitz, Julius Charles Hare, Connop Thirlwall (1832)
"... they were not concubinages: the only difference was, that, though the father was a patrician, the children belonged to the same order with their mother. ..."

5. The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political by William Ewart Gladstone (1874)
"J The upshot, then, seems to "be this: that Rome, while stigmatising marriages not Tridentine as concubinages iu the manner we have seen, reserves a power, ..."

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