levirate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having to do with one's husband's brother.
2. isim A marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir.
3. isim The institution of levirate marriage.

   “And it is, he says, impossible not to believe that the Levirate—that is, the practice of marrying a dead brother's widow—is derived from polyandry.”