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sororates

sororates is the plural of sororate.

Meaning of sororate

Noun

sororate (countable and uncountable, plural sororates)

  1. The custom of the marriage of a man to the sister of his wife, usually after the wife has died.
    • The sororate was operative during the feudal period, at least among the feudal lords.1967, Han-chi Fêng, The Chinese Kinship System, page 46
  2. A marriage according to this custom.
    • Sororates had a similar effect of providing for the survivors of a deceased.1972, Donald Olen Cowgill, Lowell Don Holmes, Aging and Modernization, page 54

Questions about sororates

What is sororates the plural of?
Sororates is the plural of sororate.

Words near sororates in the dictionary

  1. sororal nieces
  2. sororally
  3. sororate
  4. sororate marriage
  5. sororate marriages
  6. sororates
  7. sororial
  8. sororially
  9. sororicidal
  10. sororicidally
  11. sororicide

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