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leviratic

Meaning of "leviratic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF LEVIRATIC

ˌlɛvɪˈrætɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEVIRATIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Leviratic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LEVIRATIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of leviratic in the English dictionary

The definition of leviratic in the dictionary is pertaining to the Biblical custom of levirate.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LEVIRATIC

aristocratic · autocratic · bureaucratic · conglomeratic · democratic · erratic · hieratic · Hippocratic · idiosyncratic · isocratic · meritocratic · nonoperatic · operatic · piratic · quadratic · Socratic · technocratic · theocratic · undemocratic · uratic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEVIRATIC

leviable · leviathan · levied · levier · levies · levigable · levigate · levigation · levin · levirate · leviratical · leviration · levitate · levitation · levitational · levitator

WORDS THAT END LIKE LEVIRATIC

akratic · antidemocratic · automatic · biquadratic · Christian Democratic · cosmocratic · dyscratic · gynecocratic · hierocratic · kleptocratic · leucocratic · magistratic · nonaristocratic · nondemocratic · ochlocratic · pantisocratic · plutocratic · social democratic · stratocratic · umbratic · unbureaucratic

Synonyms and antonyms of leviratic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «leviratic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF LEVIRATIC

Find out the translation of leviratic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

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

Translator English - Chinese

leviratic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

levirato
570 millions of speakers
en

English

leviratic
510 millions of speakers
hi

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leviratic
380 millions of speakers
ar

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leviratic
280 millions of speakers
ru

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leviratic
278 millions of speakers
pt

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leviratic
270 millions of speakers
bn

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leviratic
260 millions of speakers
fr

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léviratique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Leviratic
190 millions of speakers
de

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leviratic
180 millions of speakers
ja

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leviratic
130 millions of speakers
ko

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leviratic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Leviratic
85 millions of speakers
vi

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leviratic
80 millions of speakers
ta

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leviratic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

लीव्हराटिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

leviratic
70 millions of speakers
it

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leviratic
65 millions of speakers
pl

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leviratic
50 millions of speakers
uk

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leviratic
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

leviratic
30 millions of speakers
el

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leviratic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leviratic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

leviratic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

leviratic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of leviratic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEVIRATIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of leviratic
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about leviratic

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEVIRATIC»

Discover the use of leviratic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to leviratic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia
Here the distinction between leviratic and other unions is also important. Upper- caste widows, even when allowed to remarry in principle cannot exercise a free choice over whether or not to do so and whom to marry. A widow may, for instance ...
Bina Agarwal, 1994
2
Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences
Let us take Needham's examples, sticking also to his own accounts of the meaning of the relevant notions: 'Leviratic marriage, in which a man marries a deceased brother's widow and raises descendants in his brother's name.' This is the ...
Ernest Gellner, 2004
3
Widows in African Societies: Choices and Constraints
know what the content of their leviratic relations might be, since according to Luo custom a woman's sexual life terminates with the onset of menopause. The custom was reported by several married women I knew. Paul Mboya, a prominent  ...
Betty Potash
4
Law, Custom and Property Rights Among the AMA/Nyiman of the ...
leviratic. marriage-widow. inheritance. The levirate marriage or widow inheritance as some would call it, is a firmly established institution among the Ama/Nyimarj. After a man dies, his widow, known as kér koré, remains unmarried for at least a ...
Hunud Abia Kadouf, 2013
5
Tudies In Honour Of Prof. G.S. Ghurye
(f) The castes of Lodhas, Minas and Chamars practise leviratic unions. The Minas and Chamars have both senior and junior leviratic Unions. Fission of households of brothers under this custom, leads to fusion when one brother dies. Such a ...
Pillai, S.D., Pillai
6
The Hausa of Nigeria
They will pay a good bride price, even for a leviratic union, to ease her decision and increase her family's pressure on her. Women of her dead husband's family will visit the widow and as friends entice her to remain. If she has children past ...
Frank A. Salamone, 2010
7
Religion and African Civil Wars
There is no leviratic marriage any more. Christians have given this up. So, we, widows, don't have children anymore.' Because Nuer do not equate the death of the husband with the termination of the marriage, Nuer Christian widows remain in ...
Niels Kastfelt, 2005
8
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress
A man wanting legal exemption from his leviratic duty stated his intention before the city elders. The widow then publicly removed his shoe, spat in his face, and proclaimed: “So shall be done to the man who will not build his brother's house.
Eric Silverman, 2013
9
Kaleidoscope Catechesis: Missionary Catechesis in Africa, ...
Why indeed should people (especially widows and orphans within a leviratic system) be brutalized with the undignified choice between baptism and wives within a social and cultural context where the levirate is the normative way for the  ...
Anthony Y. Naaeke, 2006
10
The Family Estate in Africa: Studies in the Role of Property ...
Beyond this, a leviratic husband finds it very hard to establish any sort of control over the sons who were already married. Thus the younger sons can usually expect no readjustment of holdings when the final disposition of property is made for ...
Robert F. Gray, P.H. Gulliver, 2013
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Leviratic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/leviratic>. May 2024 ».
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