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单词 marry-in
释义

marry-in

See also: marryin'

English

Etymology

  • (genetics): From the verb to marry in.
  • (protest): From marry + -in.

Noun

marry-in (plural marry-ins)

  1. (genetics) A person who is on a family tree because he has married someone on the tree, and is not related by blood to anyone on the tree except his own descendants.
  2. A protest where many people marry, as in protest of a law that forbids such marriages.

Verb

marry-in (third-person singular simple present marries in, present participle marrying in, simple past and past participle married in)

  1. To join a family or group through marriage.
    • 1998, Michael Winkelman, Ethnic Relations in the U.S.::
      Marriage patterns were likely exogamous to the band, with women marrying in as wives, and with daughters and sisters marrying out.
    • 2004, Michael Weiner, Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2013, Fady I. Sharara, Ethnic Differences in Fertility and Assisted Reproduction, →ISBN, page 14:
      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.
  1. To marry someone of the same religious or ethnic group.
    • 1976, Helena Znaniecka Lopata, & ‎Mary Patrice Erdmans, Polish Americans, →ISBN, page 153-154:
      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.
    • 1994, Steven Bayme & ‎Gladys Rosen, The Jewish Family and Jewish Continuity, →ISBN, page 26:
      Jews who marry out — especially women who marry out, marry substantially later than Jews who marry in.
    • 1994, Eileen Tamura, Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2006, Lola Romanucci-Ross, ‎George A. De Vos, ‎& Takeyuki Tsuda, Ethnic Identity: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN:
      He emphasized the necessity of marrying in to preserve Bushman bodies and all their physically defining characteristics.
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