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  • adjective Between families.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ familial

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Examples

  • Sophocles's Oedipus is a particular inspiration for endless interfamilial trauma and revenge, apparently.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • Worlds collide and find themselves already interwoven ... there's more going on than interfamilial melodrama, and Shafak's ambitions do not stop with an airing of Turkey's century-old dirty laundry ...

    The Bastard of Istanbul: Summary and book reviews of The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak. 2007

  • And as children learn that they are complicit with their nuggets, wings, ribs and cheeseburgers, they lock it down deep in denial, repressing interfamilial murder.

    The ABCs of Atrocity 2009

  • Not to mention an attention span and focus unavailable to minds driven mad with interfamilial incest and other taboo deviations from the social norms of the great unwashed masses (read: you and me).

    The True Origin of Our Present Misery: Why Peace Never Had a Chance 2009

  • I'm having problems with part 2 (addressing interfamilial) so I'll skip to part 3 and come back to it.

    jeremiah was a bullyfrog 2008

  • The collective building of dykes to reclaim tidal marshes for cultivation and maintenance of the embankments also encouraged interfamilial cooperation among the Acadians.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The collective building of dykes to reclaim tidal marshes for cultivation and maintenance of the embankments also encouraged interfamilial cooperation among the Acadians.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Rumors of an Ed-and-Caroline marriage began to surface as early as January 1984, at which time it was also said that there was interfamilial opposition to such a union.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • Their authority doubly compromised by their status as outsiders and their dependence on the Portuguese, the first Mundlovu chiefs faced bitter opposition from local Mukavele and Khosa families, a problem that interfered with Portuguese attempts to govern the area throughout the colonial period, and whose legacy of interfamilial tension persists to this day.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • Rumors of an Ed-and-Caroline marriage began to surface as early as January 1984, at which time it was also said that there was interfamilial opposition to such a union.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

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