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Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage. Concubinage and marriage are often regarded as similar, but mutually exclusive.
In contemporary civil law, concubinage is a legal term that is sometimes used for an interpersonal, intimate relationship between a man and a woman, or, depending on the jurisdiction, unmarried couple, in which the couple wish to cohabit, but do not want to or cannot enter into a full marriage.
Concubinatus (Latin, "concubinage") was a monogamous union, intended to be of some duration but not necessarily permanent, that was socially and to some extent legally recognized as an alternative to marriage in the Roman Empire.
May 12, 2017 · Exodus 21:7-10 has been appealed to as regulative of some aspects of 'Concubinage', but that only implicitly. Concubines are mentioned primarily in early Israelite history during patriarchal times, the period of the judges, and the early monarchical though some later kings also had concubines.
Mar 7, 2023 · Concubinage involves a long-term relationship between a man and woman, often with an understanding of financial support in exchange for companionship and sexual services. However, unlike marriage, it is not legally recognized and does not have the same social status or protections.
Concubinage, the state of cohabitation of a man and a woman without the full sanctions of legal marriage. The word is derived from the Latin con (“with”) and cubare (“to lie”). The Judeo-Christian term concubine has generally been applied exclusively to women, although a cohabiting male may also be.
Concubinage refers to the state of a woman or youth (known as the concubine or mistress) in an ongoing, quasi-matrimonial relationship with a man of higher social status. The concubine relationship is based on the power that one person has over another, typically a man’s power over a woman.
Concubinage is the state of a woman in a relationship with a man of higher social status that gives her less rights than a marriage. In most of the cases the man has an official wife and one or more concubines.
noun [ U ] uk / kɒnˈkjuː.bɪ.nɪdʒ / us / kɑːnˈkjuː.bə.nɪdʒ / Add to word list. the practice of having concubines: Communist revolutionaries banned bigamy and concubinage in China. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships. adulteress. affinal. as husband and wife idiom. be an item idiom.
Aug 20, 2015 · Under Article 334 of the Revised Penal Code or RPC, concubinage refers to the cohabitation of a married man with a mistress in the same or conjugal dwelling or an involvement of a married man with a woman who is not his wife in any other place. The sexual intercourse of the married man to the concubine took place under scandalous circumstance.
