incest
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin incestus.
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incest (usually uncountable, plural incests)
- Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and first cousins, usually considered taboo; in many jurisdictions, close relatives are not allowed to marry, and incest is a crime.
- Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.
- 2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, page 225:
- He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.
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sexual relations between close relatives
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Verb
incest (third-person singular simple present incests, present participle incesting, simple past and past participle incested)
- (transitive, intransitive) To engage in incestuous sexual intercourse.
- 1994, Kathryn Carter, Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication:
- I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.
- 2009, Antonino Ferro, The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept (page 206)
- Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother
- 2011, Marvin Mengeling, Crows, Pete Rose, UFOs: And Other Pretty Pieces (page 2)
- […] the most powerful of that bunch of immortal giants called Titans was Cronus, who “incested” with sister Rhea, who then birthed the Olympians (Zeus and his bunch) […]
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Etymology
Ultimately from Latin incestus.
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incest m (uncountable)
- incest
- Synonyms: bloedschande, bloedschending, bloedschennis
Serbo-Croatian
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ìncest m (Cyrillic spelling ѝнцест)
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