Definition of "hetairism" [he•tair•ism]

• Alternative form of hetaerism‎. (noun)

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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."
• "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)."
• "Hevings! is there no help for us -- no halting-place this side of hetairism?"