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Levirate

noun
1.
The biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line.





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... the requisite rites and by their learning, and amongst whom a sort of rivalry is gradually developed, according as one tribe or another is supposed to have more or less prospered by its sacrifices".(1) In the family marriage is sacred, and traces of polyandry and of the levirate, surviving as late as the epic poems, were regarded as things that need to be explained away. Perhaps the most barbaric feature in Vedic society, the most singular relic of a distant past, is the survival, even in a modified and ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang


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