du lévirat

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الفرنسية - الإنجليزية
{a} leviratical
{s} (Biblical) pertaining to levirate (custom which required that a man marry his brother's widow if the deceased died childless)
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother