concubinacy

English

Noun

concubinacy (usually uncountable, plural concubinacies)

1. (obsolete) The practice of concubinage.
   • 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:

     He had the Welsh bishoprics also visited; wherein much gross ignorance, and many remainders of superstition, and particularly concubinacy, prevailed among the Clergy

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “concubinacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)