An official union of lesser status than a marriage, often with status inequality between the partners

The childless Sarah presents Hagar, her handmaid, to her husband Abraham. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after C.W.E. Dietricy.

Marci Pauli Antonini, philosophi tribocci, Confutatio dubiorum, quae contra Schediasma Halense de concubinatu [by C. Thomasius] mota sunt.

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Concubinage

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Marci Pauli Antonini, philosophi tribocci, Confutatio dubiorum, quae contra Schediasma Halense de concubinatu [by C. Thomasius] mota sunt.

The childless Sarah presents Hagar, her handmaid, to her husband Abraham. Line engraving by J.G. Wille after C.W.E. Dietricy.