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endogamy

/en-dog-uh-mee/US // ɛnˈdɒg ə mi //UK // (ɛnˈdɒɡəmɪ) //

内配制,内配种,内配,内婚

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : marriage within a specific tribe or similar social unit.Compare exogamy.

Examples

  • Limited exogamy with direct maternal or paternal descent, accordingly, means a reapproach to endogamy.

  • Natural selection has determined that exogamy produces fitter progeny than endogamy.

  • There is no antithesis between endogamy and exogamy; no exogamous "tribes" have been found up to the present time.

  • Endogamy and exogamy are forms of the mores in which one of these policies has been adopted to the exclusion of the other.

  • The captured wife was also a trophy, and the play of this fact on vanity would always tend to disintegrate the system of endogamy.