levirate / ˈlɛv ər ɪt, -əˌreɪt, ˈli vər ɪt, -vəˌreɪt /

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levirate 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the custom of marriage by a man with his brother's widow, such marriage required in Biblical law if the deceased was childless. Deuteronomy 25:5–10.

更多levirate例句

  1. The Levirate (from "Levir," a brother-in-law, in Sanscrit dvar) is also found operating as a stringent injunction.
  2. By a Levirate marriage if a man died without heirs his remaining brother married his widow and raised up heirs to him.
  3. There is absolutely no trace of a levirate system by which the nearest male kinsman must marry his deceased brother's widow.
  4. We are therefore reduced to the levirate as a proof of the former existence of group marriage.
  5. He regards this rather unfortunately named custom of the levirate as having its root in group marriage.