exogamy

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There is the same tribal instinct in the aversion of Jews from exogamy, and it is this sort of scientific selection which is subconsciously going on when parents and guardians, sisters, cousins, and aunts, interfere with the "elective affinities."

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  1. noun The custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit.
  2. noun Biology The fusion of two gametes that are not closely related.

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  • The first generation of Glamensas deliberately did not favor exogamy, but bred only with their own kind, Darwinically ramping up their genes to even greater potency. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
  • Indigenous "exogamy", Aboriginal people marrying outside their race, had increased since
  • The Bible condemned the following behaviors which we generally allow: intercourse during menstruation, celibacy, exogamy (marriage with non-Jews), naming sexual organs, nudity (under certain conditions), masturbation (some Christians still condemn this), birth control (some Christians still forbid this). —  open source theology - Comments
  • Endogamy and exogamy are forms of the mores in which one of these policies has been adopted to the exclusion of the other. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
  • There are many reasons why endogamy seems more primitive than exogamy, and it required force of interest, superstition, or vanity to carry a society over from the former to the latter. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
 

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  1. from Greek ἒξω, outside, + -γαμία, from γάμος, marriage.
 

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/ɛkˈsɑgəmi/
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