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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] a companion, a concubine, fem. of [GREEK] a comrade.]

A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common.

H. Spencer.

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Hetˊa-ris′tic

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Adj.

hetarism ‎(uncountable)