How To Use Concubinage In A Sentence
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I'm reminded of the first Christian legislators, who didn't quickly abolish the tolerant Roman laws regarding practices which didn't conform to the natural law, or which were actually contrary to it, such as concubinage and slavery," Cardinal Cottier wrote.
CathNews
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V with regard to episcopal elections, and passed several disciplinary decrees directed against existing abuses, such as simony and concubinage among the clergy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Dunkeld; for this fact illustrates one of the great evils under which the Scottish Church was at this time labouring, namely the usurpation of abbeys and benefices by great secular chieftains, an abuse existing side by side, and closely connected with, the scandal of concubinage among the clergy, with its inevitable consequence, the hereditary succession to benefices, and wholesale secularization of the property of the Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Fornication of such a gross kind as (exists) not even among the heathen, so that one (of you) hath (in concubinage) his father's wife," that is, his stepmother, while his father is still alive (2Co 7: 12; compare Le 18: 8).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Contrary practices, such as concubinage, were still tolerated, but they counted for little in the social organism.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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He fled with a bounty on his head and his sisters were abducted and forced into concubinage anyway.
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The Court held that a same - gender relationship could not constitute "concubinage" for the purpose of terminating alimony.
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They ‘live in Concubinage - swopping their Wivesas Cattle, and living in a State of Nature, more irregularly and unchastely than the Indians,’ wrote an observer in the South nearly 200 years ago.
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From one-quarter to one-fifth were family- and sex-related offenses, including adultery, incest, concubinage, and rape.
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Historically, concubinage was frequently voluntary (by the girl and/or her family’s arrangement), as it provided a measure of economic security for the woman involved.
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In the former princely states, as also in the zamindaries till their abolition soon after independence, concubinage was a recognised custom.
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They inveighed against slavery, concubinage , foot binding, arranged marriage, cruel punishments, and the use of opium.
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Gratian ascribed to the concubinage relationship the quality of marital affection which the Roman jurists had reserved for marriage unions.
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a courtezan, and the term concubinage to the latter, because a concubine is a substituted partner of the bed, therefore for the sake of distinction, ante-nuptial stipulation with a woman is signified by keeping a mistress, and post-nuptial by concubinage.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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Or some one in the palace misguides thy noble husband, the chief of the Athenians, by secret concubinage in thy bed.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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Satlow then discusses levirate marriage, polygyny and concubinage.
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While she and Constantius were a love match, their only choice was to live together in concubinage, an accepted form of cohabitation for people of different social status.
Santa Elena, discoverer of the Holy Cross
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The charge of concubinage was just as distasteful to Hawks as the perpetration of individual assaults because the suggestion of lewd conduct on the part of soldiers cast doubt on black women's morality.
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Former husband sought to terminate his alimony payments which were made pursuant to a separation agreement because his wife began cohabitating with another women, which he claimed ran afoul of the "concubinage" restriction in the agreement.
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The hostile commentator William Tyndale, writing in 1530, made the distinction between England and other countries where concubinage (irregular clerical partnerships with women) was official, including neighbouring Wales.
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Involuntary, or servile, concubinage sometimes involves sexual slavery of one member of the relationship, typically the woman.
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Ph. Schaff, W.J. Mann describes the relation of the General Synod to the Methodists and Presbyterians as a "concubinage" with the sects.
American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
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The polygamy and concubinage which is sanctioned in the Koran, has degraded the women to a degree that may be imagined, and certainly has not, as some authorities contend, abolished other evils.
Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam
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White women were believed to "grieve" more than Black women forced into concubinage, raped, or enslaved in prostitution.
Melissa Ditmore: Today's Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking Reflect Historical Racism and Sexism
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Although the English Church was free of major scandals, such abuses as non-residence, pluralism, concubinage, and the parochial clergy's neglect to repair chancels, where these occurred, continued to attract attention.
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The Romney folks need to sharpen their TPs on this one, as the PaC is actually an improvement, family values- or at least women's rights- wise, on the previous sub-marriage legal arrangement available to couple in France: the “certificat de concubinage notoire.”
The Three-Month Itch - Swampland - TIME.com
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The idea of the family was held up by both law and custom, and although concubinage and the intercourse with hetairai was suffered, nay favored, by the state, still such impure elements never intruded on domestic relations.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
