intramarry

English

Etymology

intra- +‎ marry

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æɹi

Verb

intramarry (third-person singular simple present intramarries, present participle intramarrying, simple past and past participle intramarried)

1. To marry a member of the same group, social stratum, or religion.
   • 1983, Peter S. Li, B. Singh Bolaria, Racial Minorities in Multicultural Canada, page 98:

     One is that even though the probabilities for intramarriage within groups depend upon their representation in a population, most intramarry at a much higher rate than would be expected by chance.

   • 1985, GA Cretser, JJ LEON, “RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN INTERMARRIAGE IN THE US: REVIEW OF SELECTED THEORY, METHOD, AND RESEARCH”, in International journal of sociology of the family:

     On the other hand, Bugelski (1961) found that the 1960 residents of Buffalo with Polish or Italian names, when compared to the 1930 residents, were intramarrying at a declining rate.

   • 1997, Gin Yong Pang, Asian American Intermarriage and the Language of Assimilation, page 81:

     As for educational achievement, there was virtually no difference in that area between the interracially married and the intramarried Korean American women and spouses.

References

• “intramarry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.