cohabitation

/ kəʊˌhæbɪˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. the state or condition of living together as husband and wife without being married
2. (of political parties) the state or condition of cooperating for specific purposes without forming a coalition

Example Sentences

Citing a potential “cohabitation issue” Fisichella says that he believes the pope will eventually choose to move out.

From The Daily Beast

But cohabitation researchers see the outcomes a little differently.

From The Daily Beast

Premarital sex and cohabitation may have been rare half a century or more ago, but now they are common among all groups.

From The Daily Beast

Had the patron saint of repenting harlots seduced him into some sort of cohabitation?

From The Daily Beast

Cohabitation continues for three weeks without other incidents than scuffles and threats which become less frequent day by day.

From Project Gutenberg

In legal and illegal cohabitation, in every sort of union and cohabitation, good or bad, the underlying reality is the same.

From Project Gutenberg

Cohabitation with a woman who has previously had commerce with a leper may also produce infection.

From Project Gutenberg

The law of 1862, known as the Edmunds Act, declared such cohabitation to be a misdemeanor.

From Project Gutenberg

I welcome death, as it will preserve me from staining the purity of my noble blood by cohabitation with such as thou art.

From Project Gutenberg