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Cohabit vs Concubinage - What's the difference?

cohabit | concubinage |

As a verb cohabit

is to reside with another as if married or as a married couple.

As a noun concubinage is

the state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married.

cohabit

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To reside with another as if married or as a married couple.
  • To coexist in common environs with.
  • (archaic) To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition.
  • Synonyms

    * cohabitate

    concubinage

    English

    Noun

  • The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married.
  • The state of being a concubine.
  • * 1902' Websters International Dictionary. "In some countries, ' concubinage is marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality. Under Roman Law, it was the living together of a man and a woman in sexual relations without marriage but in conformity with local law."