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Meaning of "concubitancy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONCUBITANCY

concubitancy  [kɒnˈkjuːbɪtənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONCUBITANCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Concubitancy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CONCUBITANCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

concubitancy

Concubinage

Concubinage is an interpersonal relationship in which a person engages in an ongoing sexual relationship with another person to whom they are not or cannot be married. The inability to marry may be due to differences in social rank, or because the non-concubine is already married. The woman in such a relationship is referred to as a concubine. Historically, concubinage was frequently voluntary by the woman or her family, as it provided a measure of economic security for the woman involved. Statue of Yang Guifei, the favoured concubine of Emperor Tang Xuanzong of China.

Definition of concubitancy in the English dictionary

The definition of concubitancy in the dictionary is a custom requiring marriage between two persons, especially a custom requiring a woman to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONCUBITANCY


appetency
ˈæpɪtənsɪ
blatancy
ˈbleɪtənsɪ
competency
ˈkɒmpɪtənsɪ
dilatancy
daɪˈleɪtənsɪ
dubitancy
ˈdjuːbɪtənsɪ
excitancy
ˈɛksɪtənsɪ
exorbitancy
ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənsɪ
hesitancy
ˈhɛzɪtənsɪ
incogitancy
ɪnˈkɒdʒɪtənsɪ
incompetency
ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənsɪ
inhabitancy
ɪnˈhæbɪtənsɪ
intermittency
ˌɪntəˈmɪtənsɪ
irritancy
ˈɪrɪtənsɪ
latency
ˈleɪtənsɪ
latitancy
ˈlætɪtənsɪ
militancy
ˈmɪlɪtənsɪ
patency
ˈpeɪtənsɪ
penitency
ˈpɛnɪtənsɪ
precipitancy
prɪˈsɪpɪtənsɪ
remittency
rɪˈmɪtənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONCUBITANCY

concubinage
concubinary
concubine
concubitant
concupiscence
concupiscent
concupiscible
concupy
concur
concurred
concurrence
concurrency
concurrent
concurrent engineering
concurrent processing
concurrent user
concurrent versions system
concurrently
concurring
concuss

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONCUBITANCY

acceptancy
accountancy
adjutancy
aggressive accountancy
attractancy
concomitancy
constancy
consultancy
executancy
expectancy
exultancy
fancy
financial accountancy
importancy
inconstancy
inexpectancy
instancy
life expectancy
management consultancy
oscitancy
reluctancy

Synonyms and antonyms of concubitancy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «concubitancy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONCUBITANCY

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The translations of concubitancy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «concubitancy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

concubitancy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

concubitancy
570 millions of speakers

English

concubitancy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

concubitancy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

concubitancy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

concubitancy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

concubitancy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

concubitancy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

concubitancy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesenangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

concubitancy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

concubitancy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

concubitancy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Concubitancy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

concubitancy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

concubitancy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संयमशीलता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

concubitancy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

concubitancy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

concubitancy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

concubitancy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

concubitancy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

concubitancy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

concubitancy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

concubitancy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

concubitancy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of concubitancy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONCUBITANCY»

The term «concubitancy» is used very little and occupies the 171.998 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONCUBITANCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «concubitancy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «concubitancy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about concubitancy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONCUBITANCY»

Discover the use of concubitancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to concubitancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom
CONCUBITANCY. JUSTIFIED. BY. RESULTS. It is not a little remarkable thatthetwo extremes of vitality should occur inthe two classes in which inbreeding prevails. The larger class of the concubitants (in which class also is ...
Basil Thomson, 1968
2
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great ...
B. H. THOMSON.—Concubitancy in the Glasszficatory System, (5:0. 371 together. The occasions on which the whole tribe assembles are comparatively rare, for the game has to be sought in all directions over the common hunting-ground, and  ...
3
The Lancet
As regards the influence of concubitancy as a factor of importance in the occurrence of deaf-birth, the evidence afforded by my cases is inconclusive. Of the 68 first cousin marriages, 26 showed deaf- birth, of whom 15 were concubitant and 11 ...
4
Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga
The marriage of first cousins is not popular as in Fiji, though there is a trace of the sentiment that has produced the curious custom of concubitancy practised by the Fijians. The offspring of two sisters are absolutely forbidden to marry, butthe ...
Basil Thomson, 197
5
Two Crows Denies it: A History of Controversy in Omaha Sociology
1980. Designation of preferential aff1nity in the Jok- wele Kpelle Omaha-type relationship terminology. Journal of Anthropological Research 36, 1:31—48. Thompson, Basil H. 1895. Concubitancy in the classificatory system of relationship.
Robert Harrison Barnes, 1984
6
Totemism and Exogamy, Vol. II (in Four Volumes)
570, 573 ; Basil H. Thomson, " Concubitancy in the Classificatory System of Relationship," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiv. (1895) P- 372 ! id-t The Fijians, a Study of the Decay of Custom (London, 1908), p. 183. The form of the ...
Sir James George Frazer, 2013
7
Dictionary Of The Social Sciences
2. a person living in concubinage. concubitancy mutual marriageability. conditionability susceptibility of an individual to conditioning. conditioning, approximation differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a final form of behaviour.
Hugo F. Reading, 1996
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Marriage and Worship in the Early Societies A Treatise on ...
570, 573 ; Basil H. Thomson, (t Concubitancy in the Classificatory System of Relationship," Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxiv. (1895) p. 372 ; id., 7Vie Fijians, a Study of the Decay of Custom (London, 1908), p. 183. The form of the ...
Sir James George Frazer, 1995
9
Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands: Early ...
On every divorced woman was pronounced the charm called is anaa-nzlbung, by which she was protected against the evil magic of her late husband's family, and at the' same time absolved from her duty of concubitancy to him. During the ...
Rosemary Grimble, 2013
10
Journal
speak of the relationship in which the marriage is obligatory as " concubitancy." Further, I must, as Mr. Fison has already done, urge, that for the proper understanding of this marriage system, English terms of relationship be laid aside , and ...
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971

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« EDUCALINGO. Concubitancy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/concubitancy>. Apr 2024 ».
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