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Definition of Inmarriage
1. Noun. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law.
Generic synonyms: Marriage, Matrimony, Spousal Relationship, Union, Wedlock
Derivative terms: Endogamous, Inmarry, Intermarry
Antonyms: Exogamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inmarriage
Literary usage of Inmarriage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin (1818)
"From the which, if either ambition of high estate, offered to me inmarriage by
the pleasure and appointment of my prince; whereof I have some records in ..."
2. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"... each with its own 'hearth', or when two local lineages were independently
established through the inmarriage of women from the same lineage elsewhere, ..."
3. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1857)
"On the 22d COLIGNON, (Francis,) an engraver, of August, 1572, a few days after
the born at Nancy in 1621. He was inmarriage of the young king of Navarre ..."
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