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Recently acquired characters, whether physiologic or pathologic, are very liable to disappear when the individual bearing such characters intermarries with another not having the same character.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

If a man, having had a child by a woman, afterward intermarries with her, such child is deemed legitimate.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe

The educated class of foreigners finds its place among them, assimilates American culture, and intermarries in the second generation.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch

It has been somewhat astonishing to me to find how very slight are the social oscillations traceable in a middle-class family and the families it intermarries with through several centuries.

From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock