Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.
- noun The crime of sexual relations with a person defined by statute as too closely related.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun The holding, by a vicar or other beneficiary, of two benefices, one of which depends upon the collation of the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law
- noun (Eccl. Law) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Sexual relations betweenclose relatives (too closely related to be legally married), usually considered taboo, and acrime in many jurisdictions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
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The word incest conjures ideas of sex, but there was never any sex between my father and me.
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When I began my job assisting with the younger girls, I heard the word incest for the first time.
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When I began my job assisting with the younger girls, I heard the word incest for the first time.
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When I began my job assisting with the younger girls, I heard the word incest for the first time.
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And of course the word incest had still not been so much as whispered in daylight.
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And of course the word incest had still not been so much as whispered in daylight.
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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”.
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