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anti-incest

anti-incest

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anti-incest (comparative more anti-incest, superlative most anti-incest)

  1. Opposed to incest and incesters
    • 2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be
      Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest.
    • 1990 Jean Elshtein, Power Trips and Other Journeys
      The mistake on the part of the anti-incest taboo protagonists is not their insistence that we recognize the conventional features of our social arrangements ...
    • 2005 Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art - Page 449
      Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).

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