From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!laidbak!trsvax!iv
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Posslq finds favor
Article-I.D.: trsvax.212
Posted: Mon Feb 21 01:19:59 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 03:52:58 1983
References: ucbvax.913

I admit it, I also rushed to my dictionary to look up consort, and found
the same things listed there.  However, like Ken C R C Arnold, I remembered
another meaning or connotation to that word, that being of co-habitation
without marriage.  Upon researching the thought, I found out where the idea
came from (at least in my mind).  When a monarch or other person of royal
blood marries, the person that they marry is usually (and correctly) referred
to as their consort, as a person marrying into a royal family cannot be called
a king/queen prince/princess, as they are not.  These then are referred to as
(for example) the queen consort, & etc.  This WAS one of the definitions listed
by Websters (spouce).  Consort is used in this case to differentiate between
someone married to a person of royal lineage.

						jeIV
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