communal marriage

noun

First recorded in 1865–70

In their social organization they advocated communal marriage, wives being held in common.

Obviously this pretty term does not spring from 'communal marriage.'

He asserts that communal marriage is purely the outgrowth of imagination, and in so doing falls far behind Bachofen.

Lubbock in his "Origin of Civilization" recognized this "communal marriage" as a historical fact.

Let us do so, and the evidence borne by these terms to a past of communal marriage vanishes at once.

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