levir
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of levir
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A husband's brother.
“The tie between the childless widow and the levir exists automatically from the moment of widowhood. Thus a sexual relationship with anyone other than the levir would be adulterous, an offense punishable by the death penalty, according to Lev. 20:10 and Deut. 22:22.”
“Levirate marriage protects a levir's sexual property and a dead man's entitlement. The former, however, serves the latter.”
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Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin lēvir.
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