The intermarriage of blacks and whites has, however, gone on apace, and the negroes constitute a large, the mulattoes and quadroons a still larger, percentage of the population.
Against intermarriage there is, therefore, no more feeling than that which exists against any union palpably below a man's or woman's own rank in life.
In Brazil no social "colour line" is sharply drawn, and the fusion of whites and blacks by intermarriage goes steadily on.
In the early phases of the Roman state, moreover, the plebeians were not only excluded from public office, but from intermarriage with the patrician class.
Provision is made for the intermarriage of negroes, and the legalization of previous connections; but intermarriage between whites and negroes is to be punished with imprisonment for life.
A measure to prevent the intermarriage of the races was lost, and the supreme court of the state declared that marriages between whites and blacks were lawful.
Social equality meant finally intermarriage and a degraded and ignoble population.
He would prohibit intermarriage to the fourth generation.
The scalawags, as a rule, wished to prohibit intermarriage of the races, and Semple of Montgomery reported an ordinance to that effect.
The legislature was commanded to pass laws prohibiting the intermarriage of whites with negroes or with persons of mixed blood.
Intermarriage with a member of another tribe occurs occasionally but is not looked upon with favor owing to the differences of religious belief as also to the fact that it might not be possible for the husband to take away his wife.
First among the causes of sickly infancy and premature death may be mentioned the intermarriage of near relatives.
Intermarriage has destroyed traces, but there are over a hundred sultans who claim to be of royal blood.
Their intermarriage with the Igorrote tribe has generated a caste of people quite unique in their character.
By an intermarriagebetween their grandchildren, these two estates passed into the possession of descendants common to them both, in whose hands they have been preserved down to the present day.
Dear Sir--My letters from Virginia informing me of your intermarriage with my sister, I take the earliest opportunity of presenting you my sincere congratulations on that occasion.
Intermarriage with Jews and Moslems, which had become very common, is denounced and forbidden.
These are some instances, but it is not necessary to dwell on what was so common an occurrence as intermarriage between the peoples, and is forbidden neither by the Koran,[4] nor by the Bible.
And with whom could such an intermarriage be had, except with the cursed race of Cain?
Intermarriage with them was the sure ruin of the race of Seth: it subjected them at once to the curses cleaving to the race of Cain.
It would be expected that she was of that race, but if not, her intermarriage with those sons of Judah placed her in that rank.
If the slave and master were of the same race, as they once were in all parts of Europe, intermarriage between them would blot out the institution, as it has done there.
Intermarriage of these mixed lovers is not demanded by any principle of justice.
Northerners are more and more attracted to the south by climate and other advantages, and intermarriage between the natives of each section increases all the while.
We want no settlers from whose intermarriage mongrels would spring.
When they had won political equality with the patricians, the Roman plebeians repealed the prohibition of intermarriage which the former had stubbornly maintained.
The moment that the negro became an influential factor in southern politics, a real agitation against the anti-intermarriage laws would begin.
And then, the leading negroes desiring nothing else so much, there would have come many white men and women, each one willing to climb out of the depths of want by intermarriage with a prosperous negro.
Therefore intermarriage could not be the boon to the plebeians that it would now be to the southern negro, lifting him up as it would do.
They believe the north will allow their votes to be counted, will not proscribe them in society as the south does, and they will probably get for themselves or their descendants intermarriage with whites.
The fact is that intermarriage and interdining are not necessary factors in friendship and unity though they are often emblems thereof.
But interdining and intermarriage have never been a bar to disunion, quarrels and worse.
Is there any sense or any justice in it, unless you affirm that there should be no such intermarriage and no such mutual inheritance between the natives?
Uriah's being a Hittite (a race with which intermarriage was prohibited, Deut.
Their settlement on the banks of the Nile and intermarriage with the Egyptians had no deteriorating effect on them, as had been the case with the Shardana, and they preserved nearly all their national characteristics.
In ancient times, Japanese refrained from intermarriage among children of the same mother, but the distance between the noble and the mean was duly preserved.
Nor does there appear to have been much intermarriage between Spaniards and Indians in the south Atlantic region, though in Texas, &c.
French authorities, missionaries and traders seemed to get into more sympathetic relations with the Indians, and the intermarriage of the races met with practically no opposition.
Since the rule of exogamy as respecting the gens would permit the intermarriage of brothers and sisters.
All were agreed that the hindrance of spiritual kinship must be absolutely abandoned; and there was a tendency to allow intermarriage within the third degree of affinity and consanguinity.
Exogamy is therefore not regarded as the result of a prejudice against intermarriage of those related by blood.
It is not "by the degrees of consanguinity, but by the close living together that prohibitory laws against intermarriage are determined.
In this connection also should be considered the infertility and other evils resulting from the intermarriage of near kindred.
He finds the origin of exogamy in a dread of close intermarriage producing a horror of incest.
For the same reason it follows that intermarriagebetween the nearest collateral relatives may not have been excluded.
Contrary to law, which forbade intermarriage with the gentiles, members of the military class were allowed to marry foreign women taken in war.
Originally relationship is traced in the female line, andintermarriage is prohibited within the gens.
Mr. George Darwin has brought forward statistics to prove that the intermarriage of near relations does not have the unfavorable effect upon offspring which is commonly supposed.
In a fourth, intermarriage had almost completely done its work, and the old Finnish element could be detected merely in certain peculiarities of physiognomy and pronunciation.
Greek orthodoxy and Protestant sectarianism are so radically different in spirit that their respective votaries are not likely to intermarry; and without intermarriage it is impossible that the two nationalities should blend.
Community of faith led to intermarriage, and intermarriage led rapidly to the blending of the two races.
Attention however, has mostly been focused upon it in relation to the intermarriage of the deaf and its effect upon their offspring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intermarriage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alliance; bed; cohabitation; intermarriage; match; matrimony; miscegenation; union; wedlock
