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Act of living together
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cohabitation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cohabitation in government occurs in semi-presidential systems , such as France 's system, when the President is from a different political party than the majority of the members of parliament . It occurs because such a system forces the president to name ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cohabitation \Co*hab"i*ta"tion\, n. [L. cohabitatio.] The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. --Feltham. (Law) The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship. That the duty of cohabitation is released ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. living together (as spouses) [syn: living together ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "action or state of living together (especially as husband and wife)," from Middle French cohabitation (Old French cohabitacion "cohabitation, sexual intercourse"), from Late Latin cohabitationem (nominative cohabitatio ), noun of action from ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction. 2 The act of living together. 3 A place where two or more individuals reside together. 4 (context biology English) ...
Usage examples of cohabitation.
Then I could nail him on the cohabitation provision and terminate the support payments.
Robin Baylor reminded me that we had a ninety-day cohabitation provision in our settlement.
Surely it was only the circumstances of their forced cohabitation, and her own vulnerability, which made him so appealing.
Benzedrine use, his file room at the El Nido Hotel and the fact that his cohabitation was chaste.
I suppose that I could issue orders restricting family visitors to my office, so that they would leave without witnessing cohabitation.
Surely it was only the circumstances of their forced cohabitation, and her own vulnerability, which made him so appealing.
The major difference is that Canada is divided into two major linguistic groups--English speakers and French speakers--which have learned, over the course of 300 years of cohabitation, to hate each other.
Close cohabitation and close interdependence are sufficient for maintaining century after century that deep respect for the interests of the community which is characteristic of Eskimo life.
He'd heard that after years of cohabitation, pet owners began to take on the physical characteristics of their charges.
Like some editors and television producers, some scientists believe the public is too ignorant or too stupid to understand science, that the enterprise of popularization is fundamentally a lost cause, or even that it's tantamount to fraternization, if not outright cohabitation, with the enemy.
In fact, the longing to possess one's self of a nun who has renounced all the pleasures of the world, and especially that of cohabitation with the other sex, is the very apple of Eve, and is more delightful from the very difficulty of penetrating the convent grating.
A majority of people who marry this year will have cohabited with someone already, even though statistics show that cohabitation greatly increases the likelihood of divorce.
When Ken had discovered the Hrruban village, they had been ready to leave in obedience to the prohibitions which had been hammered into their heads almost from birth: cohabitation with another species could only result in the destruction of the other species.
Hence — speaking agnostically — my own cohabitation with Jack who believed all kinds of occult things, at least while he was typing them out.
Pinch's fine nostrils flared with abhorrence at my lightly spoken suggestion of extramatrimonial cohabitation.