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anti-incest en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + incest.

Meanings

1. Opposed to incest.
   • 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). 2005, Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art, page 449:
   • 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 […] 1990, Jean Elshtein, Power Trips and Other Journeys:
   • Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest. 2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be:

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Translations (2)

pt anti-incesto (opposing incest) · pl przeciwkazirodczy (opposing incest)