单词 | marrying-out |
释义 | > as lemmasmarrying-out marrying-out n. the action of taking a spouse from outside one's own community, religious group, etc. (cf. exogamy n.). ΚΠ 1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 331/2 ‘Marrying out’, as the Friends call one of a different faith, is regarded by them with especial horror. 1954 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Inst. Primitive Society vi. 68 The rule of exogamy—the rule of marrying-out—which required that a man must not marry inside a defined set of his own kin. 1998 Guardian 23 May 23/7 The marrying-out rate for men [in the Jewish community in Britain] is 40 per cent. < as lemmas |
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