To the allegation of Sir John Hawkins, that matrimony was depreciated and concubinage justified in the poetical epistle, he replies, that the censure "is founded on a false fact, because Abelard was married.
The observation is a proof that Horne had forgotten the argument in favour of concubinage which occurs alike in the English verse and the Latin prose.
Concubinage itself was fairly frequent, particularly in southern Louisiana; but no frequency of purchases for it as a predominant purpose can be demonstrated from authentic records.
Another indication against the multiplicity of purchases for concubinage is that the great majority of the women listed in these records were bought in family groups.
In so deciding the court may have been moved by its repugnance toward concubinage as well as by its respect for the statutes.
Concubinage was really tolerated, subject to the payment of an amercement.
In the thirteenth century marriage of the clergy ceased, but concubinage continued, concubines being a legitimate but inferior order of wives, whose existence was tolerated on payment of a fee known as cullagium.
Until modern times concubinagehas existed as a recognized institution.
When life becomes harder it will become aristocratic, and concubinagemay be expected to arise again.
In the Eastern empire concubinage was abolished at the end of the ninth century.
It palliates everything which is done to limit population--polygamy and infanticide in China, concubinage in Japan, and prostitution in both.
Nowhere during the 11th century were simony, concubinage and priests’ marriages more general than among the Lombard clergy, and in no other place was such determined opposition offered to Hildebrand’s reforms.
As the primary condition of all clerical reformation he insisted upon the unrelentingly consistent putting down of marriage and concubinage among the priests.
But even among these many forms of immorality broke out, concubinage between Beguines and Beghards, and worldliness, thus obliging the civil and ecclesiastical authorities again to step in.
The central point in his preaching to sinners is the doctrine that only by complete abstinence from marriage and concubinage can we become at last the partner of the heavenly bridegroom (§ 27, 4).
The practice of concubinage by the clergy was fully recognized, and the ancient fueros of Castile permitted their issue to inherit the estates of such parents as died intestate.
Spain is probably the only country in Christendom, where concubinage was ever sanctioned by law; a circumstance doubtless imputable, in some measure, to the influence of the Mahometans.
There are, besides, hypocritical men of the world, who in this way obtain indulgences in the matter of marriage and concubinage which are forbidden to them by the Christian faith.
From the palace downward polygamy and servile concubinage lower the moral tone, loosen the ties of domestic life, and hopelessly depress the people.
An unguarded statement of a public man revealed the conviction which exists among his class that concubinage must soon cease.
Is not Southern slavery guilty of a most heaven-daring crime, in substituting concubinage for God's institution of marriage?
But it is now plain that concubinage among the whites is nearly at an end.
An aged Christian, who has spent many years in the island, and is now actively engaged in superintending several day schools for the negro children, informed us that there was not one third as much concubinage as formerly.
This very naturally resulted in a too frequent substitution of clerical concubinage for marriage; and the resultant evils form one of the commonest themes of complaint in church councils of the later middle ages.
The great medieval canon lawyer Lyndwood illustrates the difficulty of distinguishing, even as late as the middle of the 15th century, between concubinage and a clandestine, though legal, marriage.
Next to these strictly lawful marriages came concubinage as a recognized legal status, so long as the two parties were not married and had no other concubines.
The early Christians had naturally preferred the formless marriage of the Roman law as being free from all taint of pagan idolatry; and the ecclesiastical authorities recognized concubinage also.
Concubinage in general was struck at by the concordat between the Pope Leo X.
Western Empire concubinage was still recognized even by the Christian emperors.
Concubinage was common, and not held in discredit.
The moral character of the white population was brightening; one proof of it was that the old custom of concubinage was becoming disreputable.
Now, marriage is the rule and concubinage the exception.
But now concubinage is becoming quite disreputable, and many are marrying those with whom they formerly lived in that relation.
The understanding is, that marriage is right, andconcubinage wrong.
The President asked her if she admitted having lived in concubinage with Brotteaux.
Egyptian history, in the first ostensible form we have, shows that concubinage and polygamy were in common practice.
But concubinagedid not in those times mean exactly what it means now.
So far as we can see, the religion founded by one who deserted his wife and babe did nothing to check concubinage or polygamy.
And arguing from popular feeling in our great cities we reach the conclusion that in ancient Israel where concubinage prevailed there was a wide and keen feeling as to the rights of concubines and the necessity of upholding them.
It is the fact that concubinage has its unwritten acknowledgment and protecting customs.
There is marriage that is only a name; there is concubinage that gives the woman more rights than one who is married.
Concubinage prevails in the camp before Troy, but only simple concubinage.
Among the Abyssinian Arabs, Sir Samuel Baker found (127) that "concubinage is not considered a breach of morality; neither is it regarded by the legitimate wives with jealousy.
Thus polygamy and concubinage are treated not only as a matter of course, but as a cause for divine reward!
The laity were to avoid concubinage and practise lawful marriage.
Among the clergy, from bishops to the lower orders, concubinage was universal and shameless, while simony ruled everywhere.
His loose ideas as to marriage and the admission of concubinage are among the blots upon his social teachings.
Fornication, adultery, marriage andconcubinage are not interpreted by public sentiment to mean one thing for one class of individuals, and another thing for another class under the same law.
For it is a fact hardly less curious, if not so strange, that there are men who while they would not think of marrying into a class beneath them would nevertheless live readily enough in a state of concubinage with women of that class.
He clearly states that there were born from the concubinage of the sons of God with the daughters of men, not sons of God, but giants; that is, bold men who arrogated to themselves at the same time both government and priesthood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concubinage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adultery; bigamy; fornication; incest; monogamy; polyandry; polygamy
