Incest

Definitions

1. Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.
   uncountable, usually
2. Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.
   broadly, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have⟳ plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.”

“For a structuralist like⟳ Edmund Leach, the structure⟳ is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest⟳ is noise and mystification.”

“He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.”

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