marry in
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marry in (third-person singular simple present marries in, present participle marrying in, simple past and past participle married in)
- To join a family or group through marriage.
- 1998, Michael Winkelman, Ethnic Relations in the U.S.::
- Marriage patterns were likely exogamous to the band, with women marrying in as wives, and with daughters and sisters marrying out.
- 2004, Michael Weiner, Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan, →ISBN:
- Others say that the bride will get on so long as she gets to know the family customs, and have no objection to a Japanese girl marrying in.
- 2013, Fady I. Sharara, Ethnic Differences in Fertility and Assisted Reproduction, →ISBN, page 14:
- A researcher reveals that he considers the “marrying in” of non-Hispanic family members into a large Mexican family cohort as rare events in an otherwise "pure" bloodline, although intermarriage is extremely common in North America.
- To marry someone of the same religious or ethnic group.
- Antonym: marry out
- 1976, Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Mary Patrice Erdmans, Polish Americans, →ISBN, pages 153–154:
- The single ancestry women have a 9 to 5 ratio of marrying in to marrying out; those of a mixed ancestry have a 5 to 8 ratio.
- 1994, Steven Bayme, Gladys Rosen, The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity, →ISBN, page 26:
- Jews who marry out — especially women who marry out, marry substantially later than Jews who marry in.
- 1994, Eileen Tamura, Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity, →ISBN:
- Japanese were much less likely to 'marry out' than other groups in Hawaii. Even in the territory's multicultural setting the Issei's propensity to 'marry in' was extraordinarily high.
- 2006, Lola Romanucci-Ross, George A. De Vos, Takeyuki Tsuda, Ethnic Identity: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN:
- He emphasized the necessity of marrying in to preserve Bushman bodies and all their physically defining characteristics.