Pauline privilege
Meanings
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- A Christian doctrine, interpreted among Catholics and some Protestants as allowing the dissolution of a marriage between two non-baptized persons in the case that one (but not both) of the partners seeks baptism and converts to Christianity and the other partner leaves the marriage.
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Etymology
Drawn from the apostle Paul's instructions in the First Epistle to the Corinthians.
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