Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Anthropology The custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit.
- noun Biology The fusion of gametes from individuals that are not closely related, as in outbreeding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The custom among certain tribes which prohibits a man from marrying a woman of his own tribe.
- noun In botany, the tendency of closely allied gametes to avoid pairing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to
endogamy .
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- noun
marriage to a person belonging to atribe orgroup other than your own as required by custom or law - noun biology the
fusion of twounrelated gametes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Etymologies
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Examples
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To put it in technical language, the succession to the kingship at Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, beena marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin.
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To put it in technical language, the succession to the kingship at Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, beena marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin.
Chapter 14. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium 1922
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Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, _beena_ marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Its very complicated character, and the fact that the two principal classes sometimes do not even have names, seem to preclude the idea of its having been the first form of exogamy, which is a strong natural feeling, so much so that it may almost be described as an instinct, though of course not a primitive animal instinct.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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To put it in technical language, the succession to the kingship at Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, beena marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin.
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They were then driven to finding strange women, and this was the origin of the exogamy which is so closely bound up with totemism.
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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At this stage of development there was quite generally though not universally prevalent the custom of "exogamy," by which a man was forbidden to marry a woman of his own clan.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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Indigenous "exogamy", Aboriginal people marrying outside their race, had increased since
unknown title 2009
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Increasing exogamy among mainline Protestants reflects this pool effect, but that accounts for only part of the total increase in exogamy, as can be seen in Figure 5.9.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy.
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