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Meaning of LEVIRATE

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lev"i*rate\ (l[e^]v"[i^]*r[asl]t), Leviratical
 
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 Definition: a social custom under which a man has both the right to marry his dead brother's widow and the obligation to provide for her.
 

 

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