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intermarriage

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Word definitions for intermarriage in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermarriage \In`ter*mar"riage\, n. Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, races, castes, or nations.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law [syn: exogamy ] [ant: endogamy ] marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law [syn: endogamy , inmarriage ] [ant: exogamy ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from inter- + marriage .

Usage examples of intermarriage.

Bahima conqueror of the fourteenth or fifteenth century imposed a strict prohibition of intermarriage, though sometimes permitting himself a Bairu concubine.

Canadian sociologist Reginald Bibby has shown that fewer than 10 percent of those who join evangelical churches come from outside the evangelical community, and most of that 10 percent usually come from other churches or through intermarriage.

The superficial rendering of this, sometimes given, that it signifies nothing more than the intermarriage of Cainites and Sethites, will not suffice when a deeper examination is made in the original languages.

They claim to be full-blooded Zunians, and have no tradition of intermarriage with any foreign race.

A considerable band of Scottish warriors had joined the Crusaders, and had naturally placed themselves under the command of the English monarch, being, like his native troops, most of them of Saxon and Norman descent, speaking the same languages, possessed, some of them, of English as well as Scottish demesnes, and allied in some cases by blood and intermarriage.

Not many blacks had been among the refugees to Samothrace, and the population had homogenized by intermarriage in the centuries since.

And so, consuls, the plebeians are ready to follow you to these wars, whether real or imaginary, on condition that by restoring the right of intermarriage you at last make this commonwealth a united one, that it be in their power to be allied with you by family ties, that the hope of attaining high office be granted to men of ability and energy, that it be open to them to be associated with you in taking their share of the government, and - which is the essence of equal liberty - to rule and obey in turn, in the annual succession of magistrates.

They said, "Because no plebeian could have the auspices, and the reason why the decemvirs had put an end to intermarriage was to prevent the auspices from being vitiated through the uncertainty of descent.

In one of these laws we demand the right of intermarriage, a right usually granted to neighbours and foreigners - indeed we have granted citizenship, which is more than intermarriage, even to a conquered enemy - in the other we are bringing forward nothing new, but simply demanding back what belongs to the people and claiming that the Roman people should confer its honours on whom it will.

If any one is going to obstruct these measures, you may talk about wars and exaggerate them by rumour, no one is going to give in his name, no one is going to take up arms, no one is going to fight for domineering masters with whom they have in public life no partnership in honours, and in private life no right of intermarriage.

There had been a few intermarriages, a little trade, some small-very small-importation of Terran machinery and technology.

There had been a few intermarriages, a little trade, some small—very small—importation of Terran machinery and technology.

And he was an esper, which should have been impossible in the carefully controlled bloodlines and intermarriages of the Families.

The crown transferred to brothers or nephews or cousins as traced by a complicated series of intermarriages by seven royal houses.