(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.
Polygamy
Definition:
(n.) The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.
(n.) The state or habit of having more than one mate.
(n.) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Polygamy and Islam were more prevalent among the EA than the booked.
(2) Gene Schaerr, who represented Utah, warned that if the state could not define marriage the way it wanted, it might have to open the door to polygamy.
(3) The incidence of polygamy was higher among the rejectors, and rejectors' husbands had more children from their other wives.
(4) Current family adversity in terms of unstable parental union, paternal use of alcohol, polygamy and sibship size operated by interactive or additive effect.
(5) This is underscored by our current inability to explain satisfactorily several patterns including the relative significance of floating, geographic biases in the incidence of cooperative breeding, sexual asymmetries in delayed dispersal, the relationship between delayed dispersal leading to helping behavior and cooperative polygamy, and the rarity of the co-occurrence of helpers and floaters within the same population.
(6) The vehemence of Conservative divisions over same-sex marriage were exposed when one Tory MP said it would undermine "normal marriage", another questioned whether polygamy would be legalised next, and a third claimed that European judges will soon force the Church of England to allow same-sex marriages against its will.
(7) 'He was sitting directly in front of me, with three wives on one side and four on the other, and I began to sing "polygamy is the worst of all things".
(8) It’s not a conservative society in a stereotyped way.” She has campaigned against issues such as polygamy, domestic violence and so-called “honour” killings.
(9) He supports polygamy and a ban on gambling and alcohol, and wants to build Europe's largest mosque - and he leads a large private militia which is accused of savage brutality in Chechnya.
(10) Further, it is shown that the human species rapidly evolved its life-extending mutations because of the special circumstances afforded by the subdivision of the species into small semi-isolated (genetically) tribes of 10-100 individuals in which polygamy was the key factor in rapid incorporation of life- and well-being-extending new features.
(11) The total fertility of 6.2 was high but lower than the national average possibly because of the high rates of polygamy and primary infertility and the long periods of amenorrhoea and breast feeding which occurred after delivery.
(12) Sexually-transmitted diseases such as vaginitis (80%) were caused by polygamy, prostitution, and promiscuity, HIV serodiagnosis could not be performed because of a lack of equipment.
(13) We were told gay marriage was the slippery slope to polygamy, bestiality and incest.
(14) Rather, the data show that polygamy and monogamy select women with different social characteristics, which are associated with different rates of cumulative fertility.
(15) The contributions of such factors as rural-urban migration, birth order, family size, polygamy and genetics to the etiology of major mental disorders in this population require further investigations.
(16) Dr Matthew Offord, MP for Hendon, asked if the government was going to introduce other forms of marriage, such as polygamy.
(17) It is possible that multiple marriages and polygamy played a significant role in the bacterial colonisation of the endometrium in the Hausa-Fulani population of Zaria, Nigeria.
(18) The elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, rescinded some of these rights: restrictions on polygamy were lifted; a reduction of the marriage age was proposed; women's right to seek divorce was limited.
(19) One local mayor was roundly criticised earlier this year after he warned legalising gay marriage would open the way to legalising polygamy or incest.
(20) Polygamy is fairly widespread in Chechnya, explained partly by local traditions and partly by a shortage of menfolk after all the tragedies the Chechens have experienced in recent decades.