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exogamy

The custom of marrying outside one's family, tribe, or clan; the converse of endogamy. It leads to the creation of ties of kinship between groups, and sometimes prevents close inbreeding.



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Not surprisingly, Catholic clergy actively encouraged and perpetuated this pattern within their administrative boundaries, using both the pulpit and the weight of their spiritual authority to inhibit exogamous unions with members of other groupings.
To tara via holyhead: the emergence of Irish catholic ethinicity in ... by Fraser, Lyndon / Journal of Social History
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These exogamous marriages introduced the possibility of idolatry and syncretistic practices into the community (Rofe: 213).
Isaiah 56:1-8 and the redefining of the restoration Judean community by Hammock, Clinton E. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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