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intermarriage

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in·ter·mar·ry  (ntr-mr)
intr.v. in·ter·mar·ried, in·ter·mar·ry·ing, in·ter·mar·ries
1. To marry a member of another group.
2. To be bound together by the marriages of members.
3. To marry within one's family, tribe, or clan.
inter·marriage (-mrj) n.
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Noun1.intermarriage - marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
exogamy
marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock, union - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
2.intermarriage - marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
endogamy, inmarriage
marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock, union - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
Translations
intermarriage [ɪntəˈmærɪdʒ] n → endogamia


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But the case is this: We are not rich enough or grand enough for them; and she is the more anxious to get Miss Darcy for her brother, from the notion that when there has been ONE intermarriage, she may have less trouble in achieving a second: in which there is certainly some ingenuity, and I dare say it would succeed, if Miss de Bourgh were out of the way.
Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context
Do you conceive, mistress, that in an intermarriage between kingdoms, as when a daughter of France is married into Spain, the princess herself is alone considered in the match?
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Here by intermarriage with the native women they rapidly developed into a race which while retaining all their original courage and enterprise took on also, together with the French language, the French intellectual brilliancy and flexibility and in manners became the chief exponent of medieval chivalry.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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