levirate marriage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A marriage in which a widow marries her late husband's brother in order to maintain the family community. countable,uncountable
    — Levirate marriage protects a levir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter.

词形变化

levirate marriages plural

词源

From levirate + marriage, from Late Latin lēvir (“husband's brother”).
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