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leviration

leviration noun: levirate marriage.

Noun

leviration (uncountable)

  1. levirate marriage
    • Their custom also supports that if she has got male or female child she will remain in deceased husband's house till her life ends. The leviration of such widows by the deceased clan-member is not rare in the society.1993, Takhe Kani, The advancing Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh, page 111

Origin of leviration

From levirate + -ion?

Questions about leviration

What does leviration mean?
Leviration means levirate marriage.
What part of speech is leviration?
Leviration is a noun.

Words near leviration in the dictionary

  1. levirate marriage
  2. levirate marriages
  3. levirates
  4. leviratic
  5. leviratical
  6. leviration
  7. Levirgian
  8. levirs
  9. Levis
  10. Levisham
  11. Levison

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