Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exogamy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Exogamy \Ex*og"a*my\, n.
The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between
members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; --
opposed to endogamy. --Lubbock.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

exogamy
n : marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other
than your own as required by custom or law [syn: {intermarriage}]


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