concubinage

He lives in a registered concubinage and has three children.

Albany had gone for the winter without making her an offer of concubinage.

Before the founding of modern China in 1911, concubinage was legal.

Not doing so was seen as evidence of concubinage, particularly until the 1970s.

She lived with him about one year in a state of concubinage and then left him.

He was making her an offer of concubinage, at this time and in this place.

Adultery was given as a justification for selling the wife into concubinage.

Missionaries were very concerned about the issue of concubinage.

My folks always kept me away from the boys, saving me for concubinage.

After four years of concubinage, they were married on 2 July 1703 but were divorced by 1706.

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.

Many priests did not live in celibacy but in concubinage.

However, clerical concubinage was hardly rare in the 12th century.

At this point so much rape or concubinage of slave women has occurred that there are very few people with white skins left.

Below the level of the priesthood, clerical concubinage or marriage was even more widespread.

Assistance at and celebration of the Mass by a priest living in notorious concubinage was prohibited.

In a concubinage situation, the wife, concubines and their children would live in the same household.

Concubinage was "tolerated to the degree that it did not threaten the religious and legal integrity of the family".

The impetus for the reforms was corruption within the church, particularly simony and concubinage.

If she avoided enslavement or concubinage, how would she eat?

Although sometimes the two are confused, Mut'ah is not concubinage.

I can think of the marital needs of royalty without once weighing my own concubinage.

Maimonides was not the first Jewish thinker to criticise concubinage.

Here, the Church dealt with issues of simony, concubinage of the clergy.