Sentence:  In the late fourth century C.E. Jerome, in a letter to Eustochium, one of his closest friends among the noble women of Rome, asked how the "plague" of the <WSD>agapetae</WSD> came to exist within the Church. He calls these <WSD>agapetae</WSD> "unwedded wives," "novel concubines, and harlots." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (agapet); (Agapetae)