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Example sentences for "intermarrying"

Lexicographically close words:
interludes; intermarriage; intermarriages; intermarried; intermarry; intermaxillary; intermeddle; intermeddled; intermeddleth; intermeddling
  1. In these respects they resemble most of the central and northern tribes, but present this unique peculiarity, that the same totems may and do exist in both of the opposed intermarrying exogamous divisions consisting of four classes each.

  2. The exogamous moieties of a tribe (phratries) are not the result of a reformatory legislative bisection of the tribe, but of the existence of "two intermarrying totem clan groups.

  3. Bunjil taught the Kulin the arts of life, and told them to divide themselves into two intermarrying classes so as to prevent marriages between kindred.

  4. The prohibited degrees are very differently defined in the customs or laws of different nations, and it appears that the extent to which relatives are prohibited from intermarrying is nearly connected with their close living together.

  5. No force or persuasion were required in order to prevent them from lapsing into idolatry or intermarrying with heathen women.

  6. Such a sentence as, "for the Canaanites were then in the land," could not have been written till long after the time when the Jews were intermarrying freely with Canaanite wives.

  7. It was to prevent the members of the Church from intermarrying with those whose religious opinions differed from their own.

  8. The civil law did not prohibit the orthodox from intermarrying with heretics, but many councils in strong terms denounced such marriages as criminal.

  9. Further, that the prohibition against intermarrying with the seven Canaanite races must also be extended to all idolatrous nations, as the law was actually intended to prevent the people from being drawn into idolatry.

  10. The only excuse which he found for the pious Ezra and his emigration was the assertion that the latter had led to Judaea such families as were of doubtful origin, in order to prevent their intermarrying with those whom he left behind.

  11. I do not think under the present condition of things that there will be any general intermarrying of the races, but this idea of rooted antagonism of races to me is all moonshine.

  12. In 1663 it was enacted that any freeborn woman intermarrying with a slave should serve the master of the slave during the life of her husband and that any children resulting from the union were also to be slaves.

  13. What kept them from intermarrying with the middle class save pride?

  14. It was a caste: a race not intermarrying with the races below it.

  15. Sophie Bendigo was of the pure Celtic type still preserved among the intermarrying villages of West Penwith.

  16. These were the usual intermarrying exogamous phratries.

  17. Mr. Howitt endeavours (if I grasp his meaning) to show how man did at last see it, and therefore bisected the horde into intermarrying phratries.

  18. Or (d) men were at first in groups, intermarrying within the group.

  19. The Arunta have eight, not four, intermarrying classes.

  20. In each of their intermarrying phratries are two 'Matrimonial Classes,' each with its name, and these are so constituted that a member of the elder generation can never marry a member of the succeeding generation.

  21. Moreover, even among the Arunta, certain totems greatly preponderate in each of the two exogamous intermarrying divisions of the tribe.

  22. Killigrews remained for nearly four centuries, acting as governors of Pendennis Castle for a great part of that period, intermarrying with many of the oldest Cornish families, and attending at the Courts of Henry VIII.

  23. In his time the Tlingit, like a dozen South-Eastern tribes of Australia, had animal-named kins in animal-named exogamous intermarrying phratries with female descent.

  24. Prohibition of intermarrying in the gens except in the case of heiresses.

  25. Sometimes it is stated that intermarrying within these organizations is forbidden.

  26. The manner of her entrance from the outset excludes all prohibition of intermarrying in the gens, into which she has come by marriage.

  27. It so happens that we frequently find certain groups among undeveloped nations (which in 1865 were often considered identical with the tribes themselves), inside of which intermarrying was prohibited.

  28. Now, so far as I have been able to ascertain, the whole village, consisting of some five hundred souls, is related to the two sheiks, for the population has gone on marrying and intermarrying till the relationships are unfathomable.

  29. The Dutch do not perpetuate their race at Batavia; and even without intermarrying with the natives they become sometimes sterile at the second generation.

  30. There are, nevertheless, a goodly number of unions between the mestizos of the first degree; but the individuals issued from these unions have no longer the same chances of intermarrying as those of the first generation.

  31. They do not breed, though there is nothing to indicate that they would not be prolific by intermarrying either with the Blacks or Whites.

  32. He speaks of (1) The division of a tribe, or community, into two exogamous intermarrying classes.

  33. Like Mr. Daniel McLennan, Herr Cunow quotes the legend of the wars of Eagle-Hawk and Crow, which ended in the establishment of the intermarrying phratries of Crow and Eagle-Hawk.

  34. The division of a tribe (community) into two exogamous intermarrying classes.

  35. Westermarck says, 'It seems to me extremely probable that the practice of capturing women for wives is due chiefly to the aversion to close intermarrying .

  36. The hordes merely developed into groups of comrades or of kin, as such not intermarrying among themselves, and marking themselves for no assigned reason, with plant or animal names: reverence of the totem came later.

  37. To prevent near marriages (previously universal), the commune is split into two exogamous intermarrying phratries.

  38. Wales the phratry is again subdivided, and four intermarrying classes (sometimes called sub-phratries) are formed, two of which make up each phratry.

  39. Intermarrying until quite lately was the rule, and it must be annoying to eugenists to find that the natives are such a hardy and vigorous race.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intermarrying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.