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- noun Plural form of
co-wife .
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Examples
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The polygamous Aleut and Cheyenne permitted male berdaches to be co-wives of a man alongside single-spirit women.
Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic? Elizabeth Abbott 2011
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The polygamous Aleut and Cheyenne permitted male berdaches to be co-wives of a man alongside single-spirit women.
Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic? Elizabeth Abbott 2011
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Rigby reports that wasanji are co-wives that help each other in agriculture. back
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When co-wives unite in purpose, husbands must comply.
Leah: Bible. 2009
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The climax in the rivalry between the sisters/co-wives comes when Reuben finds mandrakes.
Leah: Bible. 2009
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The competition between the sisters/co-wives continues as Leah gives her maid Zilpah in turn.
Rachel: Bible. 2009
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But when the co-wives cooperate, Jacob, like other husbands, complies with their wishes.
Rachel: Bible. 2009
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Leah does not play the kind of role in determining the fate of her sons that Rebekah and Sarah did, perhaps because she never feels as secure as they did, and possibly because in a polygamous situation, co-wives have less influence except when they are united.
Leah: Bible. 2009
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Her relationship with her husband is consistently monogamous, unlike that of Sarah, who not only has extramarital sex, but also provides her husband with the slave wife Hagar, and of Rachel and Leah, who are co-wives and also provide slave wives to Jacob.
Rebekah: Bible. 2009
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Peninnah represents a woman who accepts social paradigms without examining them, thus acting out the type of jealousy between co-wives known from the matriarchal texts of Genesis.
Peninnah: Bible. Abensohn 2009
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