LEVIRATE


Meaning of LEVIRATE in English

noun Etymology: Latin levir husband's brother; akin to Old English tācor husband's brother, Greek daēr Date: 1725 the sometimes compulsory marriage of a widow to a brother of her deceased husband, leviratic adjective

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