incest

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Fritzl had admitted the other four charges against him -- incest, rape, sequestration and grievous assault -- but pleaded not guilty to murder and slavery when the trial opened on Monday.

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  1. noun Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.
  2. noun The statutory crime of sexual relations with such a near relative.

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  • A few years prior to that, though, Harvard Anthropology badass Ted MacDonald once told me that according to the biology, incest was a completely socially constructed taboo. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Libby Casey: Suppose Senator John Doe puts forth a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and he asked you to attend the announcement and support him in that. —  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print
  • Are you a 12 year old victim of rape and incest, a 7th grader who has been forcibly impregnated by her own relatives? —  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print
  • Abortion would be illegal in every circumstance, including in cases of rape, incest, and the endangerment of the health / life of the mother. —  Evil Mommy
  • In "Family Bible," Melissa J. Delbridge writes about lesbian affairs, incest, a philandering father and a keeping-up - —  news | TL | http://www.tuscaloosanews.com
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  1. Middle English, from Latin incestum, from neuter of incestus, impure, unchaste : in-, not; see in-1 + castus, pure, chaste; see kes- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English incest, from Old French (also F.) inceste = Spanish Portuguese Italian incesto, from Latin incestum, unchastity, incest, neuter of incestus, unchaste (later incestus (incestu-), masculine, incest), from in- privative + castus, chaste: see chaste.
 

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