Cohabitation without being legally married

Usage examples of concubinage.

And Nutmeat is suing Galactic Transfer for involuntary concubinage and violation of the Narcotics Pact or something.

Then the King, all smiles, bade me have a nice dinner first, at which he specified, in the trophy way, a good-looking Amazon captive not older than twenty-five Polyeidic years or below the rank of first lieutenant, sufficiently intact for concubinage.

Consequently, this sin is specially inhibited to priests by the Church, lest anyone hear the mass of one living in concubinage.

I introduced myself, and she responded, in a sort of cascade of words, that she was called Setsen, and she was of the Mongol tribe called Kerait, and she was a Nestorian Christian, all the Kerait having been converted, in a bunch, by some long-ago wandering Nestorian bishop, and she had never set foot outside her nameless village in the far-northern fur-trapping country of Tannu-Tuva until she was selected for concubinage and transported to a trading town called Urga, where, to her surprise and delight, the provincial Wang had graded her at twenty-four karats and sent her on south to Khanbalik.

But to exclude all vulgar concubinage, and to drive all whores in rags from within the walls, is within the power of every one.

Miss Wildfang assented, and was plunged into an even more pitiful state of mental concubinage toward Professor Vambrace than before.

How different indeed was he from those who, if their wives go mad, shut them in madhouses and give themselves up to concubinage, and nay, what is more, there are many who extenuate such conduct too.

Nineteen years ago, when they assigned me to the parish, there were eleven cases of public concubinage among the important families.

They had sworn to destroy the city of Ilium, to slaughter its men, to carry off its women into concubinage and slavery, to loot its treasures.

They all foresaw the fall of Troy, the burning of Ilium, the massacre of the men, the enslavement and concubinage of the women.

Service and a normal life, or of perpetual concubinage to your King and Country.

He reduced multiple benefices, raised the educational standards for priests, took stern measures against usury, simony, and clerical concubinage, forbade the wearing of pointed shoes in the Curia, and did not endear himself to the College of Cardinals.

No, I'm a civilized person from the Four Provinces who, because her rich father gambled away all his money, was sold by him into concubinage to become Number Two Wife for this chief of police of the foreign devilsl So go piss in your hat!

His own father had unsuccessfully attempted something much smaller with his campaign of regicide and concubinage in the North Coast states.

The Pseudograph makes municipal laws of the ten commandments, (symbol omitted) 1-10, regulates concubinage, (symbol omitted) 12, makes it death to strike or to curse father or mother, (symbol omitted) 14, 15, gives an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, strife for strife, (symbol omitted) 19.