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Pauline privilege
noun
, Roman Catholic Church.
- (in canon law) the privilege given to converts to dissolve a marriage with an unbaptized spouse if either obstructs the religious practices of the other.
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There is a kind of divorce in the Church known as the Pauline Privilege.
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