Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Sexual relations between close relatives (too closely related to be legally married), usually considered taboo, and a crime in many jurisdictions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)
Etymologies
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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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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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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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.
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No sane person would ever suggest that real-world incest is a beautiful thing, to say the least.
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The physiological problems of incest is of course inbreeding.
Incest, Betrayal and Genetic Sexual Attraction « Colleen Anderson
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There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them.
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“There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them.”
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There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. wtf?
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