单词 | incest |
释义 | incestn. 1. a. The crime of sexual intercourse or cohabitation between persons related within the degrees within which marriage is prohibited; sexual commerce of near kindred. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > incest incest?c1225 incestancy1602 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > sexual relation of spiritually related persons incest?c1225 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 152 Incest..is bituȝe sibbe fleschliche. a1300 Cursor Mundi 27942 Incest, þat es for to lij bi þat þi sibman has line bi, or if þou has don þat sin wit ani of þin aun kin. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 162 Neyther may be weddyd to oþeres kyn in-to þe fyfte degre, ne medle wyth hem; for ȝif þei don, it is incest. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iii. (R.) Thys holy man coulde not abide such incest and vnnaturalnesse of mariage in a king's house. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 140 Is't not a kinde of Incest, to take life From thine owne sisters shame? View more context for this quotation 1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1851) II. 137 Its annals are black with treason, murder, and incest. 1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God iii. iii. 299 Hideous charges of cannibalism and incest. b. spiritual incest (Roman Catholic Church): (a) Marriage or sexual connection between persons related by spiritual affinity, or with a person under a vow of chastity, etc. (b) The holding by the same person of two benefices, one of which depends on the collation of the other. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > who has two > the holding of two together > one of which depends on collation of other spiritual incest1728 ?c1225 [see sense 1a]. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 361/1 Mayster Martine Luther hymself..toke out of religion a spouse of Christ..liueth with her openly..in shamefull incest and abhominable bycherye. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Spiritual incest is also understood of a Vicar, or other Beneficiary, who..holds two Benefices, the one whereof depends on the Collation of the other. Such a Spiritual Incest renders both the one and the other of those Benefices vacant. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > incest > person incest1484 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vi. iv Thow arte an inceste & lechour, For thow knowest naturelly both thy moder and thy doughter. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore v. sig. I3 v When my young Incest-monger comes. 1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 16 Nov. (1964) II. 154 The incest scene of Amon & Tamar is perfectly tremendous. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Psychoanal. & Unconscious i. 20 At the root of almost every neurosis lies some incest-craving. 1921 D. H. Lawrence Psychoanal. & Unconscious ii. 31 And this brings us finally to incest, even incest-worship. 1933 Ld. Raglan Jocasta's Crime i. 6 Having eliminated reason, instinct, and religion as bases of the incest taboo, what have we left? The answer is magic. 1933 Ld. Raglan Jocasta's Crime ii. 15 There are no stronger upholders of the incest taboo than those very Australian tribes who believe that the child has no physical connexion with the father. 1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 162 The intimacy of life in the smaller Communes acts as a gradually materialising incest-barrier. 1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook xxiii. 323 Examples of such archetypes or primordial experiences are..the incest-motif. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 199 Usually the primary incest-taboos are extended in various ways. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 56 Incest thoughts appear in human dreams. 1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 59 The sexual nature of this relationship is reinforced and with it feelings of incest-guilt, especially in the child. This situation may cause the boy or girl later to shirk contact with the opposite sex for fear of violating the incest barrier. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1225 |
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