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Intermarriage   /ˌɪntərmˈɛrɪdʒ/   Listen
Intermarriage

noun
1.
Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law.  Synonym: exogamy.
2.
Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law.  Synonyms: endogamy, inmarriage.






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"Intermarriage" Quotes from Famous Books



... flat farmlands remained only as an equalizing symbol. Thorleys, Fays, Willoughbys, and Brands worked for one another with the community of interests developed in a beehive, and intermarried. If from the process of intermarriage the Fays were, on the whole, excluded, the discrimination lay in some obscure instinct for affinity of which no one at the time was able ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

... bronzed and sombre. O, Leaf! how art thou mummified! We do not think of these little things of Nature. Look at this leaf. What is its record? How many generations, think you, are numbered in its ancestry? A perpetual intermarriage has not weakened its fibres. The anatomy of this leaf is perfect, and the sap of this oak flows from oak to acorn, from acorn to oak, in an interminable and uninterrupted succession since the first day. What are your titles ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard

... be as they may speak any other foreign language. Here are men who by speech belong to one nation, by actual descent to another. If they lose the physical characteristics of the race to which the original settler belonged, it will be due to intermarriage, to climate, to some cause altogether independent of language. Every nation will have some adopted children of this kind, more or fewer; men who belong to it by speech, but who do not belong to it by race. And what happens in the ...
— Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists • James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Steph



Words linked to "Intermarriage" :   intermarry, matrimony, spousal relationship, marriage, wedlock, union, inmarriage, exogamy



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