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View synonyms for incest
incest
[ in-sest ]
noun
- sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- the crime of sexual intercourse, cohabitation, or marriage between persons within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity wherein marriage is legally forbidden.
incest
/ ˈɪnsɛst /
noun
- sexual intercourse between two persons commonly regarded as too closely related to marry
incest
- Sexual relations between relatives who are forbidden by law to marry; for example, between father and daughter or mother and son.
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Notes
Though each society has its own system for determining the range of people who fall into this category, every society has an incest taboo of some sort.
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of incest1
C13: from Latin incestus incest (from adj: impure, defiled), from in- 1+ castus chaste
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Example Sentences
Incest appears to have had in his eyes peculiar charms; for he offered himself three times to three different sisters-in-law.
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Incest is, like many other incorrect things, a very poetical circumstance.
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Incest was originally a requirement to make it possible for human beings to multiply.
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Incest is common, in Switzerland especially, among the inhabitants of isolated mountain chalets.
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Incest and infanticide are as common among them as among the lower animals.
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