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incest

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɪn.sɛst/Part of speech nounSorted ceinstStarts with IEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin incestus. Displaced Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.

Used in a sentence

  • Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.
  • For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
  • He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.

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