Meaning of marry out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To marry someone who is from another family; To avoid incest.
2. To marry someone from a different religion or ethnic group.

Examples

“E. B. Tylor's idea that humans have only one choice, namely either to marry out or to die out, has become the most commonplace functional explanation. The necessity to marry out is always a corollary to the prohibition to marry sisters.”

“Most of us take it for granted that we must marry out—that is, we cannot marry members of our immediate families.”

“Over time, groups that marry out had an advantage over those that did not, so eventually all groups developed incest taboos.”

“The opposite supposition is that younger people are more receptive to social change and unconventional ways, thus more likely to marry out at a higher rate.”

“The support of language proficiency associated with the home and endogamous marriage is absent in the case of women who marry out. In addition, men who marry out have more extrafamilial ethnic associations (visiting of Greek ethnic friends, memberships in Greek ethnic organizations) than women who intermarry, giving intermarrying men greater support for Greek language proficiency than their female counterparts.”

“Jews who marry out — especially women who marry out, marry substantially later than Jews who marry in.”

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