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 tribes are divided into numerous small clans which are exogamous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
Will any one assert, then, that people among whom the exogamous prohibition arose were organised on the system of the patriarchal family, which permits the nature of kinship to be readily understood at a glance?
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang
