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Leviration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    levirate marriage uncountable

    "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."

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From levirate + -ion?

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