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exogamy
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exogamy (ĕksŏg`əmē): see marriage marriage, socially sanctioned union that reproduces the family . In all societies the choice of partners is generally guided by rules of exogamy (the obligation to marry outside a group); some societies also have rules of endogamy (the obligation to marry within a
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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
: exogamous families' guide to the worm of francophone education.
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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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