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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermarry.

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Examples

  • The educated class of foreigners finds its place among them, assimilates American culture, and intermarries in the second generation.

    Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

  • The Brazilian lower class intermarries freely with the black people; the Brazilian middle class intermarries with mulattoes and Quadroons.

    The Negro 1915

  • Shala is one of the tribes that suffers much from a form of syphilis said to have been recently introduced, as do all the tribes with which it intermarries.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • In the fundamentals of life this normal community is independent and self-subsisting, and where it is not beginning to be modified by the novel forces of the new times it produces its own food and drink, its own clothing, and largely intermarries within its limits.

    An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

  • It has been somewhat astonishing to me to find how very slight are the social oscillations traceable in a middle-class family and the families it intermarries with through several centuries.

    The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

  • [Illustration: page226] and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race, by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • The whole piece is a moral exhortation, {parainesis}, and this passage particularly seems to be a reproof to man, who, while with his domestic animals he is curious to improve the race by employing always the finest male, pays no attention to the improvement of his own race, but intermarries with the vicious, the ugly, or the old, for considerations of wealth or ambition.

    Letters 1760

  • The percentage of Americans of mixed race is growing significantly among people under 18; in California and Nevada mixed-marriage rates are at more than 13 percent, and in the rest of the Southwest a heavily Latino population increasingly intermarries with other ethnic groups.

    AOL News Collection:opinion collection 2010

  • Rutherfurd traces the history through this family, broadening his tale as the family interacts and intermarries with newcomers.

    WORLDMag.com 2010

  • Rutherfurd traces the history through this family, broadening his tale as the family interacts and intermarries with newcomers.

    WORLDMag.com 2010

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