cohabit
verb (used without object)
to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
had cohabited
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past perfectof cohabit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Many of the traders, and of the servants of the Company, had been induced to marry the women with whom they had cohabited; a material step towards the improvement of the females in that country.
From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 by John Franklin
A man and a woman, who, though they had cohabited, were not legally married, disputed as to the possession of their child in order to receive its share of the public allowance.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
Many of the traders and of the servants of the Company had been induced to marry the women with whom they had cohabited; a material step towards the improvement of the females in that country.
From The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin
