exogamy
noun
marriage outside a specific tribe or similar social unit.
exogamic
-
a word derived from
exogamy.
Example Sentences
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Some clans have a membership running into the millions, and clan spirit is so great that, in spite of the absence of legislation, the Chinese marriage system is still largely exogamic on this clan basis.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
The Seri are loosely organised in a number of exogamic, matrilineal, totemic clans.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
The former are patrilineal and the latter are grouped into matrilineal exogamic totemic clans.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
Besides this exogamic marriage, an endogamic marriage was later recognized as conferring title, on the condition that the man reconciled the woman's blood relatives by the payment of a definite compensation.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld
Later there was a taboo on exogamic marriage.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
