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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Open concubinage; specifically, in anthropology, the practice among some primitive races of common intercourse between the sexes; absence of the institution of marriage, or of lasting union between man and woman. Also written
hetairism and, incorrectly, hetarism.
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