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incest /in·cest/ (in´sest″) sexual activity between persons so closely related that marriage between them is legally or culturally prohibited.
incest [in′sest] Etymology: L, incestum, defiled sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry legally. incestuous, adj. incest Vox populi Sexual intercourse among close kin–eg, brother/sister, parent/offspring, first cousins, based on genealogic or totemic descent, or by reason of marriage or adoption; incest is illegal in most societies. See Conguinity. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| One must then also exclude from the kingdom of God today all who are immoral (or prostitutes or engaged in incestual relationships), all idolaters, adulterers, thieves, greedy persons, drunkards, revilers, and robbers. La Cienaga chronicles the exploits of a couple of families on vacation and manages to evoke a mood -- in this case a kind of humid claustrophobia mixed with a strong undertone of incestual sexual tension -- better than any film I saw. In1931, psychoanalyst Ernest Jones suggested that the repeated intrusion of these fearful dreams into sleep is related to an "anxiety neurosis" and massively repressed incestual wishes. |
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