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intramarry en · VERB

Etymology

From intra- + marry.

Meanings

1. To marry a member of the same group, social stratum, or religion.
   • One is that even though the probabilities for intramarriage within groups depend upon their representation in a population, most intramarry at a much higher rate than would be expected by chance. 1983, Peter S. Li, B. Singh Bolaria, Racial Minorities in Multicultural Canada, page 98:
   • On the other hand, Bugelski (1961) found that the 1960 residents of Buffalo with Polish or Italian names, when compared to the 1930 residents, were intramarrying at a declining rate. 1985, GA Cretser, JJ LEON, “RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, AND NATIONAL ORIGIN INTERMARRIAGE IN THE US: REVIEW OF SELECTED THEORY, METHOD, AND RESEARCH”, in International journal of sociology of the family:
   • As for educational achievement, there was virtually no difference in that area between the interracially married and the intramarried Korean American women and spouses. 1997, Gin Yong Pang, Asian American Intermarriage and the Language of Assimilation, page 81:

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