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/koʊhˌæbətˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Cohabitation n.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.

(Law) The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship. "That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted."

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Etymology of 'Cohabitation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cohabitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... last of the institutions to have the daylight let in and the windows thrown open. For the home is no more threatened by liberty than the State is, and that pair which is kept together only by the shackles of the law is already divorced; its cohabitation is a scandal. Free love in the promiscuous sense is no uglier than coupled loathing. The social life of that community where divorce is least free is no purer than that where divorce is not difficult. Otherwise South Carolina, which alone of the States permits no divorce ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... is a hideous association of enemies, a yoked animosity; the second, a lukewarm connection of colleagues, an external partnership; the third, a convenient alliance of pleasure seekers, an animal cohabitation. ...

— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger

... four shillings in ready money. But how save this sum, out of weekly earnings of a couple of florins, which are scarcely sufficient to keep her from starving, and are still less sufficient to clothe her? No! no! The poor wretch must resign herself to this repugnant cohabitation; and so, gradually, the instinct of modesty becomes weakened; the natural sentiment of chastity, that saved her from the "gay life," becomes extinct; vice appears to be the only means of improving her intolerable condition; she yields; and the first "man made of money," who can ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue