Definition of Inmarriage

1. Noun. Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law.

Exact synonyms: Endogamy, Intermarriage
Generic synonyms: Marriage, Matrimony, Spousal Relationship, Union, Wedlock
Derivative terms: Endogamous, Inmarry, Intermarry
Antonyms: Exogamy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inmarriage

inlisting
inlists
inlive
inlock
inlocked
inlocking
inlocks
inlook
inlooks
inlumine
inlumined
inlumining
inly
inmacy
inmarriage (current term)
inmarry
inmate
inmates
inmeat
inmeats
inmesh
inmeshed
inmeshes
inmeshing
inmew
inmid
inmiddes
inmigrant
inmigrants

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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