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Meaning of "coverture" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COVERTURE

From Old French, from covert covered.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COVERTURE

coverture  [ˈkʌvətʃə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COVERTURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Coverture 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 COVERTURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Coverture

Coverture was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights and obligations were subsumed by those of her husband, in accordance with the wife's legal status of feme covert. An unmarried woman, a feme sole, had the right to own property and make contracts in her own name. Coverture was enshrined in the common law of England for several centuries and throughout most of the 19th century, influencing some other common-law jurisdictions. According to Arianne Chernock, coverture did not apply in Scotland, but whether it applied in Wales is unclear. After the rise of feminism in the mid-19th century, coverture came under increasing criticism as oppressive towards women, hindering them from exercising ordinary property rights and entering professions. Coverture was first substantially modified by late 19th century Married Women's Property Acts passed in various common-law legal jurisdictions,and was weakened and eventually eliminated by subsequent reforms. Certain aspects of coverture survived as late as the 1960s in some states of the United States.

Definition of coverture in the English dictionary

The definition of coverture in the dictionary is the condition or status of a married woman considered as being under the protection and influence of her husband. Other definition of coverture is shelter, concealment, or disguise.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COVERTURE


aperture
ˈæpətʃə
candidature
ˈkændɪdətʃə
cubature
ˈkjuːbətʃə
curvature
ˈkɜːvətʃə
discoverture
dɪsˈkʌvətʃə
entablature
ɛnˈtæblətʃə
filature
ˈfɪlətʃə
implicature
ɪmˈplɪkətʃə
incurvature
ɪnˈkɜːvətʃə
judicature
ˈdʒuːdɪkətʃə
ligature
ˈlɪɡətʃə
musculature
ˈmʌskjʊlətʃə
nervature
ˈnɜːvətʃə
nomenclature
nəʊˈmɛnklətʃə
ossature
ˈɒsətʃə
quadrature
ˈkwɒdrətʃə
serrature
ˈsɛrətʃə
striature
ˈstraɪətʃə
subminiature
sʌbˈmɪnɪətʃə
tablature
ˈtæblətʃə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COVERTURE

covered
covered market
covered wagon
coverer
covering
covering fire
covering letter
coverless
coverlet
Coverley
covermount
covers
coversed sine
coversine
covert
covert cloth
covert coat
covertly
covertness
covet

WORDS THAT END LIKE COVERTURE

adventure
agriculture
architecture
capture
Chinese water torture
concert overture
departure
French overture
Italian overture
nurture
overture
parture
predeparture
recomforture
relative aperture
self-torture
supporture
torture
Toussaint L´Ouverture
water torture

Synonyms and antonyms of coverture in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «coverture» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COVERTURE

Find out the translation of coverture to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of coverture from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «coverture» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

coverture
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

coverture
570 millions of speakers

English

coverture
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

coverture
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

coverture
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

укрытие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

coverture
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আচ্ছাদন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maritale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penutup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

coverture
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

被覆体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

coverture
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kothak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chổ núp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தங்குமிடம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छंद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kocanın himayesinde olma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coverture
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

coverture
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

укриття
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

acoperitoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

coverture
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

coverture
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

coverture
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

coverture
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of coverture

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COVERTURE»

The term «coverture» is normally little used and occupies the 123.879 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COVERTURE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «coverture» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «coverture» 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 coverture

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COVERTURE»

Discover the use of coverture in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to coverture and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Law of Infancy and Coverture: 1St American from the Last ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Peregrine Bingham, 2010
2
Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents
Thus the Nineteenth Amendment, passed in 1920 to give women the right to vote, directly overrode common law that had held that states did not have to allow women to vote. See also Coverture; Fourteenth Amendment; Marriage; Nineteenth ...
Ashlyn K. Kuersten, 2003
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The Complete QDRO Handbook: Dividing ERISA, Military, and ...
There is no need to use a coverture fraction if the Participant's employment began after the date of the marriage and terminated before the date of divorce or separation, since the fraction will always be 10/10, 15/15, or some other identical  ...
David Clayton Carrad, 2009
4
At the Limits of Coverture: Judicial Imagination and Women's ...
The balance of the project closely examines the operation of exceptions to coverture at the eighteenth-century common law courts.
Karen Pearlston, 2007
5
Man and Wife in America: A History
Coverture was a concept created by the English common law and by the royal courts that were responsible for the common law; it served to recognize husbands' title — ownership — to most forms of marital property. The royal courts, however, ...
Hendrik Hartog, 2009
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Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in ...
Despite the woman suffragists' pronouncement that the married women's property acts inflicted the deathblow to coverture, the rules of coverture and married women's status persisted. Married women gained the right to own property, that ...
Kathleen S. Sullivan, 2007
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The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation ...
American women's second-class citizenship emerged from the concept of coverture, which was inherited from British Common Law but taken to a new extreme by the American legal system. In England, coverture made women the economic ...
Sally L. Kitch
8
Criminal Wives in the Old Bailey: Crime and Coverture in ...
Under coverture husband and wife were one person before the law.
Marisha Caswell, 2006
9
Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre
Wilkie Collins investigates this challenge to the socially accepted norm of the Domestic Angel when he considers the legal principle of coverture in The Moonstone (1868). In particular, he examines coverture's implications for the single ...
Kimberly Harrison, Richard Fantina, 2006
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The Law Library
sideration of marriage, the power to recover upon it is gone so long as the coverture lasts, for married persons are one in law, so that no action can be maintained by the one against the other. And it would seem to follow from the opinion both ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COVERTURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term coverture is used in the context of the following news items.
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Marriage and the constitution: What the court said and why it got it …
He mentions coverture, where “a married man and woman were treated by the State as a single, male-dominated legal entity.” He mentions bans on interracial ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
2
'Marriage Is a Human Institution; It Doesn't Come in One Shape That …
Under coverture, a wife was legally invisible after her marriage, in large measure because she could no longer enter into contracts. «Pacific Standard, Jul 15»
3
A Selfie Of The Changing Times
In a large part of Europe, women forfeited their legal rights after marriage under the tenets of coverture and Napoleonic Code. And if one ... «Swarajya, Jul 15»
4
Marriage doomsday never comes
When the legal doctrine of coverture was overturned and married women acquired the right to own property and engage in contractual ... «Baxter Bulletin, Jul 15»
5
When slavery won't die: The oppressive Biblical mentality America …
During the American colonial era, single women could own real estate and other assets, but thanks to a legal concept called coverture, married ... «Raw Story, Jul 15»
6
Marriage doomsday never comes: Column
When the legal doctrine of coverture was overturned and married women acquired the right to own property and engage in contractual ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
7
Sex, Slavery and the Black Body Count–An Interview with …
During the American colonial era, single women could own real estate and other assets, but thanks to a legal concept called coverture, married ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jul 15»
8
John Roberts' Gay Marriage Dissent Is Wrong About Polygamy …
Coverture, the old doctrine that a wife's legal personality was merged with that of the husband, who was recognized as head of the household, ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
9
It's Not Black People Who Need to Change
Under the doctrine of coverture in English law, she was not quite a person at all, and the last of the laws that stemmed from coverture were ... «RH Reality Check, Jun 15»
10
Lessons and learnings for India from the US same-sex marriage ruling
Even though the laws of coverture have been formally dissolved, women continue to be expected to remain subordinate to their husbands. «Scroll.in, Jun 15»

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