exogamy
noun
marriage outside a specific tribe or similar social unit.
exogamous
-
a word derived from
exogamy.
Example Sentences
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Since my body makes essentially zero T I am dependent upon exogamous T. I have had my prescription tweaked, Ive used different formulations and Ive gone without and with extra.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2018
The Cherokee tradition of exogamous marriage, or marrying outside of one’s clan, evolved during the 17th and 18th centuries as Cherokees encountered Europeans on a more frequent basis.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2015
Except in France, where political philosophies tended to turn inward, most political movements of the past 150 years have been highly exogamous, often finding in partibus infidelium new ideas with which to mate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Thlinkeets, the Mayas of Yucatan and the Indians of Guiana are exogamous, observing a custom which is thus seen to exist throughout Africa, in Siberia, China, India, Polynesia and the Americas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
As exogamy and polyandry are referable to one and the same cause—a want of balance between the sexes—we are forced to regard all the exogamous races as having originally been polyandrous....
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels
