Noun
The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.
The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. Cicero
Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers. Sloane Crosley
The many faces of intimacy the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship. Thomas Szasz
A more recent Iwasawa study has shown that there has been a recent emergence of non-marital cohabitation. Source: Internet
For example, when the Jewish Theological Seminary of America proposed enforcing a policy against non-marital cohabitation by rabbinical students in the 1990s, protests by cohabiting rabbinical students resulted in a complete rescission of the policy. Source: Internet