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- noun A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common.
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- noun Alternative form of hetaerism.
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Examples
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These might indeed occur between a man and a woman outside marriage, but putting aside the very limited phenomena of Athenian hetairism, they were too shameful to be idealized.
The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899
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She had a good heart and a sound intellect, and was the last of the great Renaissance courtesans who revived Greek hetairism (Graf, _Attraverso il Cinquecento_, pp. 217-351).
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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Hevings! is there no help for us -- no halting-place this side of hetairism?
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