intermarriage
Americannoun
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marriage between people of different religions, tribes, castes, ethnicities, or racial groups, as between a white person and a Black person or between a Christian and a Muslim.
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marriage between people of different social classes.
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marriage within a specific social or cultural group, as required by custom or law; endogamy.
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marriage between people belonging to the same small group, especially if they are close blood relatives.
Etymology
Origin of intermarriage
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The answer starts with Jesus, but much of the credit belongs to St. Paul, who dispensed with Jewish dietary law, circumcision requirements and prohibitions against intermarriage, thus broadening the appeal of early Christianity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
But I have spoken to more than I can count who were treated as though they did not, in fact, belong because they were the product of intermarriage, or because they themselves were intermarried.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2024
Robbins said her wife graduated from TCU, “so it already generates some intermarriage household rivalry.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Try to follow the “abridged” genealogical chart provided by the museum, with its interlocking axes of descendance and intermarriage, and you may rediscover the mercies of the nuclear family.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
There must be a lot of intermarriage in this place, he thought.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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