marry in
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To marry someone of the same religious or ethnic group.
Example Sentences
- "Marriage patterns were likely exogamous to the band, with women marrying in as wives, and with daughters and sisters marrying out."
- "Others say that the bride will get on so long as she gets to know the family customs, and have no objection to a Japanese girl marrying in."
- "A researcher reveals that he considers the “marrying in” of non-Hispanic family members into a large Mexican family cohort as rare events in an otherwise "pure" bloodline, although intermarriage is extremely common in North America."
- "The single ancestry women have a 9 to 5 ratio of marrying in to marrying out; those of a mixed ancestry have a 5 to 8 ratio."
- "Jews who marry out — especially women who marry out, marry substantially later than Jews who marry in."
- "Japanese were much less likely to 'marry out' than other groups in Hawaii. Even in the territory's multicultural setting the Issei's propensity to 'marry in' was extraordinarily high."