Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.
- n. The statutory crime of sexual relations with such a near relative.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The offense of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by the law or established usage of a country. In this offense illegitimate consanguinity is of the same effect as legitimate.
- n. The holding, by a vicar or other beneficiary, of two benefices, one of which depends upon the collation of the other.
Wiktionary
- n. Sexual relations between close relatives (too closely related to be legally married), usually considered taboo, and a crime in many jurisdictions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law sexual relations between closely related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)
Etymologies
- From Latin incestus. (Wiktionary)
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.”
“When I began my job assisting with the younger girls, I heard the word incest for the first time.”
“And of course the word incest had still not been so much as whispered in daylight.”
“He has a twisted history with his alcoholic mother — abuse and incest is implied — and awkward sexual relationships with the other women in his life, not just “The Goddess”.”
“As Hilzoy says, The whole point of bringing up cases of rape and incest is to argue that the circumstances of a fetus 'conception are relevant to the question whether abortion should be legal.”
“No sane person would ever suggest that real-world incest is a beautiful thing, to say the least.”
“The physiological problems of incest is of course inbreeding.”
Incest, Betrayal and Genetic Sexual Attraction « Colleen Anderson
“There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them.”
““There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them.””
“There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. wtf?”
Lists
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Don't commit any of these if you can
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Interesting words
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Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
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vijaimanikandan's list
Vocabulary
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Offensive Words
The worst of the bunch, bring um on
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Words that carry across conversations
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cloudjuice's Words
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
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MIX DES CULTURES
french words & english ones
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my dictionary
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sexual perversions
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