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miscegenous

miscegenous

English

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miscegenous (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or being miscegenation; interracial (said primarily of marriages and other sexual or romantic relationships).
    • 1997, Mark Philip Strasser, Legally Wed: Same-sex Marriage and the Constitution, Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-8429-2, page 114:
      The First Restatement [of the Conflicts of Laws] includes miscegenous marriages within those which need not be recognized, even if legally celebrated in another state.

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