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endogamous
[ en-dog-uh-muhs ]
adjective
- of or relating to the practice of allowing marriage only within a specific tribe, caste, ethnic or religious group, or other social unit:
The Bosnian War restricted social relations between different ethnic groups, intensifying endogamous practices in some villages.
Word History and Origins
Origin of endogamous1
Example Sentences
Race appears to open a chasm in one of the relationships, but it turns out that no union — interracial or endogamous, fraternal or romantic — is safe.
In an endogamous group, however, it’s more likely that two individuals carry the same mutation from a common founder.
This, he said, was also "the secret of endogamous marriage".
This sect counts numerous adherents in southern India; the Census Report of 1901 recording nearly a million and a half, including some 70 or 80 different, mostly endogamous, castes.
The local tribe is neither exogamous nor endogamous, any more than is an English county.
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