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incestuously

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in·ces·tu·ous  (n-ssch-s)
adj.
1. Of, involving, or suggestive of incest.
2. Having committed incest.
3. Improperly intimate or interconnected: "Press-politics relations are notoriously incestuous" (Boston Globe).

in·cestu·ous·ly adv.
in·cestu·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.incestuously - by incest; "incestuously conceived"


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In Judges, Jephthah the general executes his young daughter to fulfill a foolish vow he made after a successful battle, in 2 Samuel, David's son Amnon incestuously assaults his half-sister Tamar and then develops a loathing for her.
The sorcery of his half-sister, the adultery of his wife and best friend, and his incestuously conceived son who becomes his nemesis all play their part in its, and his, doom.
Along the way, he learns that in an incestuously upper-crust little burg like Buffalo in the 1930s, a woman doesn't simply divorce a popular man like Gramp (to marry his childhood friend, no less) without repercussions.
 
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