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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.

in·cest (

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1. Sexual relations between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom.

2. The statutory crime of sexual relations with such a near relative.

incest

[in′sest]

Etymology: L, incestum, defiled

sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry legally. incestuous, adj.

incest [in´sest]

sexual activity between persons so closely related that marriage between them is legally or culturally prohibited.

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.

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