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Definition of bu âdete ait in Turkish English dictionary
- levirate
- Having to do with one's husband's brother
- The institution of levirate marriage
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.
- A marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir
- The marriage of a woman to her husbands brother
- the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line
- 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
- {i} custom which required that a man marry his brother's widow if the deceased died childless (Biblical)
- Having to do with ones husbands brother