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Exogamy

noun
1.
Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law.  Synonym: intermarriage.





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"Exogamy" Quotes from Famous Books



... not show it, and the question came to him how just was the criticism of uninformed men? His judgment of Mormons had been established by what he had heard and read, rather than what he knew. He wanted now to have an open mind. He had studied the totemism and exogamy of the primitive races, and here was his opportunity to understand polygamy. One wife for one man—that was the law. Mormons broke it openly; Gentiles broke it secretly. Mormons acknowledged all their wives and protected their children; Gentiles acknowledged one wife only. Unquestionably ...
— The Rainbow Trail • Zane Grey


Words linked to "Exogamy" :   exogamic, wedlock, endogamy, exogamous, spousal relationship, intermarriage, union, matrimony, marriage


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