Word of the Day – Exogamy

• Noun: Exogamy
  
  1. marriage outside of a specific group especially as required by custom or law
• Synonyms:
  1. marriage
  2. wedlock
  3. spousal
  4. relationship
  5. intermarriage
  6. matrimony
  7. union
• Usage:
  1. “’Most societies,’ she went on, ‘practice both exogamy and endogamy–a man must marry outside his family but inside his nation, race, religion, or some large group, and you Free Traders are no exception; you must cross to another moiety but you can’t marry fraki.'”
• Encountered:
  1. While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy.

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