(n.) A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
(n.) A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carwyn Jones will remain first minister but his anointment threatened to be overshadowed by a sexism row after Ukip’s leader at the assembly, the former Tory MP Neil Hamilton , branded two senior female assembly members “political concubines” and called Plaid a “cheap date”.
(2) Winnie, meanwhile, raged ineffectually against the emotional cunning of the woman she called "that concubine".
(3) Abraham had only two concubines, where Solomon had 300, along with his 700 wives.
(4) Of the non-English language films that have won the Palme d'Or since 1990, only Amour has won the Academy award, while Farewell My Concubine , The Class and The White Ribbon have achieved a shortlist nomination.
(5) His mother had distant aristocratic origins, being descended from one of the sultan of Jogjakarta's concubines some generations back.
(6) The Old Testament is replete with stories of men like King Solomon who had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
(7) He is best known for a 1968 historical drama called The Eunuch, about concubines and emasculated servants unable to consummate their secret love.
(8) One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar [non-believers] and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of Islamic law,” the article said.
(9) If he pays her father to take her away, she is his concubine.
(10) Was Ramsay Snow’s concubine running away from a pack of slavering dogs or Iwan’s album listening party?
(11) 59% of the patients were between 20 and 29 years old (Table 1) and 74% were married (only 23 of these did not share their husbands with other wives or concubines) (Table 2).
(12) Responding to a tide of online criticism about his slave comments, Muthana wrote: "When I spoke about slave everyone jumped on me muslims and non muslims alike … so I stayed quiet and will stay quiet but everyone will soon find out when I get my own concubines lool, slave markets are on full blast."
(13) For slaves, concubines, gold and castles of ancient and medieval times, read private jets, holiday islands and football and baseball clubs of the contemporary era.
(14) Anti-government rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army in the most northerly districts of Uganda swept along and across it, fighting and stealing children - boys for soldiers and girls for concubines.
(15) The Chinese were the 1st to record the practice of induced abortion, with this operation being administered to royal concubines recorded at 500-515 B.C.
(16) A few weeks later an Isis pamphlet detailed how followers should treat these “concubines”, with special reference to virgins and underage girls.
(17) Pretty girls were often forcibly taken as wives or concubines.
(18) The award-winning films that heralded its 1990s renaissance, such as Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, were banned in China.
(19) In this drama centered on the concubines of a Liberian rebel commander, making its New York debut at the Public Theatre, Lupita Nyong’o of 12 Years a Slave plays the newest abducted “wife”.
(20) There are other spots worth visiting outside the centre; notably the exquisitely glazed 17th-century Abak Khoja Mausoleum, also known as the Tomb of the Fragrant Concubine in honour of a consort of Emperor Qianlong.
Polyandry
Definition:
(n.) The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 'low recurrence polyandry' is observed in the sperm dimorphic species D. affinis while a 'high recurrence polyandry' is observed in the sperm monomorphic species D. latifasciaeformis and D. littoralis.
(2) Type II is female-headed and daughters bring children into the household by de facto polyandry (41%), but sons formally weds monogamously.
(3) Mark you, I think you probably need plenty of money for polyandry.
(4) The results imply that tolerance by the national government of polyandry within certain minority groups (e.g.
(5) Type I households have as head a women whose husband either visits or lives with her but is not legally bound to her; it is de facto polyandry (26.7% of survey households).
(6) National government should practice tolerance of polyandry as an acid to the attainment of zero population growth.
(7) The phenomenon is not correlated with an unusually large degree of male parental investment, polyandry, greater aggressiveness in females than in males, greater development of weapons in females, female dominance, or matriarchy.
(8) The concern is that the nonHan might raise the national birth rate and reduce the proportion of Han, even though nonHan life expectancy is lower and there is practice of polyandry.
(9) The general practice of polyandry is described as a walking marriage where women control material resources.
(10) Discussion is provided on the polyandry found among villagers of Limi in the Highlands of Nepal and the Tre-ba of Central Tibet, where there is fraternal polyandry patriarchies, where fertility rates of these unions were not higher, and a sizeable fraction of women 20-49 were left without mates (31% in Limi and 29% in Dhinga).
(11) These include the male's greater aggressiveness, the preponderance of polygyny over polyandry, and differences in the antecedents of jealousy.
(12) Males in the three species are equally polygynous but females differ in the level of polyandry.
(13) The results indicate that polyandry, by a large number of males, is not a common phenomenon in M. rotundata bee species.
(14) 'obligatory' polyandry) should only result in sperm monomorphism irrespective of the absolute value of sperm length.
(15) The Musuo have practiced matrilineal polyandry since the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368 AD).
(16) Field studies of callitrichid species have reported a surprising degree of variation in the composition of social groups, some of which has been interpreted as evidence of 'cooperative polyandry' in recent reviews.
(17) Female mating bonds include long-term monogamy, serial monogamy, polyandry and promiscuity.
(18) Since reactivity to syphilis was associated with poverty, poor hygiene, polyandry, polygamy, and illiteracy, citizens living in Himachal Pradesh were at great risk of acquiring HIV from a foreigner.
(19) In Kerala state, India and among the Kandyan Sinhalese of Sri Lanka, polyandry may not increase the fertility of individual wives, and is economically resourceful.