Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.
- noun The crime of sexual relations with a person defined by statute as too closely related.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The offense of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by the law or established usage of a country. In this offense illegitimate consanguinity is of the same effect as legitimate.
- noun The holding, by a vicar or other beneficiary, of two benefices, one of which depends upon the collation of the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law
- noun (Eccl. Law) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Sexual relations betweenclose relatives (too closely related to be legally married), usually considered taboo, and acrime in many jurisdictions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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When I began my job assisting with the younger girls, I heard the word incest for the first time.
The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010
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When I began my job assisting with the younger girls, I heard the word incest for the first time.
The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010
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When I began my job assisting with the younger girls, I heard the word incest for the first time.
The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010
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And of course the word incest had still not been so much as whispered in daylight.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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And of course the word incest had still not been so much as whispered in daylight.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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He has a twisted history with his alcoholic mother — abuse and incest is implied — and awkward sexual relationships with the other women in his life, not just “The Goddess”.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (1934)July 2, 2023