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intermarriage|ɪntəˈmærɪdʒ|
Also 6–7 enter-.
[inter- 2 a.]
1. The action or fact of intermarrying; union in or connexion by marriage.
a. Of two persons, or of one person with another. Now only in legal phraseology = ‘Marriage’, in ordinary use.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf C iij b, If entermariages emongst themselues in theyr owne family, can not stay this furye of theyrs. 1580Mrs. Stubb in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 42 Your poor subjects said wife hath, by many arguments since their entermarriage [etc.]. 16..in Somers Tracts I. 551 That no Man shall be liable to any Action for any Debt contracted by his Wife during their Inter-marriage. 1692Wicked Contriv. S. Blackhead in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 523 Persons, who were present at the inter⁓marriage of the said Ann to the said Robert Young. 1709Steel Tatler No. 9 ⁋2 A Liberty our Family has..from an Inter-Marriage with a Daughter of Mr. Scoggin. 1800Weems Washington ii. (1877) 11 From his intermarriage with this charming girl. 1848Wharton Law Lex. 302/1 A bond given by a husband to his intended wife, upon a condition not to be performed in his life-time..would not be extinguished by the inter-marriage; for marriage extinguishes such contracts only as are for debts or things which are due in præsenti.
b. Marriage between members of different families, castes, tribes, nations, or societies, as establishing a connexion between such families, etc.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 367 Through continued supplies of their owne nation..intermarriages, and confederacies with ours. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 25 Apprehending the insafety and danger of an inter-marriage with the Bloud-Royall. 1695Temple Hist. Eng. Introd. (R.), The Normans began generally, by force of intermarriages..to use the English tongue. 1798Colebrooke Misc. Ess. (1873) II. 163 A third set of Indian classes originate from the intermarriages of the first and second set. 1841Borrow Zincali I. iii. ii. 274 It is..by intermarriage alone that the two races will ever commingle. 1893P. C. Mozoomdar in Barrows World's Parlt. Relig. I. 347 In 1851 the first intermarriage was celebrated. Intermarriage in India means the marriage of persons belonging to different castes.
2. loosely. Marriage between persons (or interbreeding between animals) nearly related; consanguineous marriage or breeding.
[1875W. Ridley Kámilarói 162 The effects of these [native Australian] rules, in passing every family through each of the four classes in as many generations, and in preventing the intermarriage of near relations, will appear on inspection of this pedigree. ]1882J. P. Irvine in Quain's Dict. Med. 384/2 Intermarriage certainly predisposes to disease...Breeders of first-class animals practise intermarriage, and thereby develop speed, quality, and endurance in the offspring. |