noun. Cohabitation without legal marriage.

noun. The state of being a concubine.

noun. The act or practice of cohabiting without a legal marriage.

noun. The state of being a concubine.

noun. In Rom, law [concubinatus], a permanent cohabitation, recognized by the law, between persons to whose marriage there were no legal obstacles.

noun. A natural marriage, as contradistinguished from a civil marriage.

noun. The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

noun. A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.

noun. The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married.

noun. The state of being a concubine.

noun. cohabitation without being legally married

"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."

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