Definition of "incest"

incest

/ˈɪnsɛst/

noun
usually uncountable, plural incests
1. Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo; in many jurisdictions, close relatives are not allowed to marry, and incest is a crime.
  Quotations
  For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
  1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12
  He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.
  2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, page 225
verb
third-person singular simple present incests, present participle incesting, simple past and past participle incested
1. (transitive, intransitive) To engage in incestuous sexual intercourse.
  Quotations
  I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.
  1994, Kathryn Carter, Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication
  Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother
  2009, Antonino Ferro, The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept, page 206
  […] the most powerful of that bunch of immortal giants called Titans was Cronus, who “incested” with sister Rhea, who then birthed the Olympians (Zeus and his bunch) […]
  2011, Marvin Mengeling, Crows, Pete Rose, UFOs: And Other Pretty Pieces, page 2

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