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Webster 1828 Edition
Incest
IN'CEST
,Noun.
The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by the law of a country.
Spiritual incest, is a like crime committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. It is also understood of a vicar or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.
Definition 2024
incest
incest
English
Noun
incest (usually uncountable, plural incests)
- Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and first cousins, usually considered taboo; in many jurisdictions, close relatives are not allowed to marry, and incest is a crime.
- Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.
- 2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, page 225:
- He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.
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sexual relations between close relatives
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incest (third-person singular simple present incests, present participle incesting, simple past and past participle incested)
- To engage in sexual intercourse with a relative.