Sentence example with the word 'exogamy'

exogamy

Definition n. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

Last update: October 10, 2015


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But when we meet with a casual remark as to the tendency of the Tasmanians to take wives from other tribes than their own, it seems likely that they had some custom of exogamy which the foreigners did not understand.   [Please select]

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With respect to exogamy itself Mr.   [Please select]

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Huth the feeling is the indirect result of exogamy, inasmuch as when this practice ceased in any tribe and it became endogamous, so that marriages were strictly confined to the same tribe, it is not unlikely that a vestige of the former practice would still be retained, so that closely-related marriages would be prohibited.   [Please select]

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