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As an adjective levirate is

having to do with one's husband's brother.

As a noun levirate is

(countable) a marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir.

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levirate

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Adjective

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  • Having to do with one's husband's brother.

    • Usage notes

    * This adjective is used almost exclusively as part of the phrase (levirate marriage).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir.
  • (anthropology) The institution of levirate marriage.
  • * 1894 , Edward Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage , second ed., Macmillan and Co., page 510,
    • And it is, he says, impossible not to believe that the Levirate —that is, the practice of marrying a dead brother's widow—is derived from polyandry.
  • * 1986 , John S. Scullion, translator, Genesis 37-50: A Continental Commentary by Claus Westermann, Fortress Press, ISBN 080069502X, page 52,
    • It is only a secondary purpose of the levirate that the property of the deceased passes on to the one who is heir to his name, and is probably a later accretion.
  • * 2006 , Gary P. Ferraro, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective , Thomson Wadsworth, ISBN 0495030392, page 219,
    • The levirate is found in patrilineal societies in which the bride marries into her husband's family while essentially severing her ties with her original family.

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