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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.  Antonym: endogamy.
2.
Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law.  Synonyms: endogamy, inmarriage.  Antonym: exogamy.






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... 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 ...
— The Side Of The Angels - A Novel • Basil King

... the present century, had little or no intercourse with the Italian population by which they were surrounded on all sides. Formerly, they did not intermarry with that race, and it was seldom that any Cimbrian knew its language. But now intermarriage is very frequent; both Italian and Cimbrian are spoken in nearly all the families, and the Cimbrian is gradually falling into disuse. They still, however, have books of religious instruction in their ancient dialect, and until very lately the ...
— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells

... tribally as are the Manbos and Mandyas. It would appear from their physical appearance and other characteristics that they should be classed as Mandyas, or as a subtribe of Mandyas with whom they form one dialect group. I judge them to be the result of intermarriage between the Maggugans and the Mandyas. They occupy the Mawab River Valley and the region included between the Hijo, Mawab, and Madawan Rivers. They are probably the people whom Montano called Tagabawas, but I think that this designation was perhaps a mistaken form of Tagabaas, an appellation ...
— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... will distinguish himself, though he lost his father in childhood." But in this case it is mental aptitude, quite as much as bodily structure, which appears to be inherited. It is asserted that the hands of English labourers are at birth larger than those of the gentry. (25. 'Intermarriage,' by Alex. Walker, 1838, p. 377.) From the correlation which exists, at least in some cases (26. 'The Variation of Animals under Domestication,' vol. i. p. 173.), between the development of the extremities and of the jaws, it is possible that in those classes which do not labour ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... and women, but which probably was brown with a tinge of red, dark compared with that of the Syrian, black compared with that of the Greek. Thick lips are frequently seen, but they are supposed to indicate intermarriage with Ethiopians. From the negro the Egyptians were far removed, nor can they be connected with any other known race. If we turn to language, a surer guide perhaps than physiology, we are again completely baffled. The Coptic has been identified through many etymologies ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various


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