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Definitions
the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line
Word origin
From Latin lēvir (“husband's brother, brother-in-law”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr (“one's brother-in-law”).
Used in a sentence
“And it is, he says, impossible not to believe that the Levirate—that is, the practice of marrying a dead brother's widow—is derived from polyandry.”
“It is only a secondary purpose of the levirate that the property of the deceased passes on to the one who is heir to his name, and is probably a later accretion.”
“The levirate is found in patrilineal societies in which the bride marries into her husband's family while essentially severing her ties with her original family.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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