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Definition of Exogamy

1. Noun. Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law.

Definition of Exogamy

1. n. The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.

Definition of Exogamy

1. Noun. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law ¹

2. Noun. (biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exogamy

1. marriage outside of a particular group [n -MIES] : EXOGAMIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Exogamy

1. Sexual reproduction between organisms which are completely unrelated to each other. Marriage between members of different groups, classes, or communities. Compare: endogamy. (11 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exogamy

Literary usage of Exogamy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Primitive Family in Its Origin and Development by Carl Nicolai Starcke (1889)
"exogamy AND ENDOGAMY. Conception of exogamy and endogamy—Their relation to ... IN the preceding pages we have repeatedly had to consider exogamy, ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Apart from minor factors and supplementary causes of exogamy in special cases, ... The opposite of exogamy is endogamy, or the prohibition of marriage ..."

3. Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions by Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"CHAPTER XI TOTEMISM AND exogamy ^ SECTION 1 exogamy AS A SURVIVAL OF GROUP MARRIAGE ' 1. As a survival of the system of group-marriage, the principle ..."

4. The Science of Ethics by Michael Cronin (1917)
"Endogamy and exogamy. Endogamy is the custom of forbidding marriages outside the tribe. exogamy is the prohibition of marriage within the tribe, ..."

5. A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the United by George Elliott Howard (1904)
"According to McLennan, as already seen, exogamy, or the prohibition of marriage within the clan, owes its rise to wife- capture occasioned by scarcity of ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"exogamy.—The relation of exogamy to Totemism is a problem of great difficulty, and will not be completely solved until the origin of exogamy is definitely ..."

7. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"Finally, as for Morgan's suggestion that clan exogamy was instituted to prevent the marriage or cohabitation of blood-relations, especially brothers with ..."

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