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Incest is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Incest meaning

  1. Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.
  2. Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.

Synonyms of Incest

unlawful carnal knowledge criminal congress

Using Incest

  • The main meaning on this page is: Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo. | Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.
  • Useful related words include: unlawful carnal knowledge, criminal congress.
  • In the example corpus, incest often appears in combinations such as: or incest, and incest, of incest.

Context around Incest

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 4 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Incest

  • In this selection, "incest" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, rape, studying, construct, per, taboo and plot stand out and add context to how "incest" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include rape or incest and about teenage incest. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "incest" sits close to words such as abd, affectionate and aiden, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with incest

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Hindu Rigveda regard incest to be "evil". citation Hinduism speaks of incest in abhorrent terms. (15 words)

Father daughter incest was for many years the most commonly reported and studied form of incest. (16 words)

Exile was inflicted for incest with a daughter; disinheritance for incest with a stepmother, or for repeated unfilial conduct. (19 words)

Savita’s story was vividly evoked by women and men when I covered the 2018 referendum to revoke the Vatican-approved Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which made abortions illegal, even in cases of rape or incest. (38 words)

North Dakota on Monday adopted one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country as Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed legislation banning the procedure at six weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest. (37 words)

Republican candidates should stop endorsing all-out bans on abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother, or punishing women who obtain abortions in violation of new state bans, he said. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

In short, anthropologists were not studying "incest" per se; they were asking informants what they meant by "incest", and what the consequences of "incest" were, in order to map out social relationships within the community.

Anthropologists have also argued that the social construct "incest" (and the incest taboo) is not the same thing as the biological phenomenon of "inbreeding".

Exile was inflicted for incest with a daughter; disinheritance for incest with a stepmother, or for repeated unfilial conduct.

Father daughter incest was for many years the most commonly reported and studied form of incest.

Hindu Rigveda regard incest to be "evil". citation Hinduism speaks of incest in abhorrent terms.

Proponents of incest between consenting adults draw clear boundaries between the behavior of consenting adults and rape, child molestation, and abusive incest.

The biological costs of incest also depend largely on the degree of genetic proximity between the two relatives engaging in incest.

Addressing it only makes the film's whole incest plot more creepy, but what really makes this scene inadmissible is Marty's fear that touching his mother sexually will cause him to become gay.

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Beshear has been clear that Kentucky currently has one of the most extreme laws in the country, with no exceptions for survivors of rape and incest.

Evers has promised to that creates exceptions under the law for rape and incest, saying he will only support a full overturning of the abortion ban.

Federal law only permits women to seek abortions at military facilities in case of rape, incest, or life-threatening pregnancies, to a fact sheet issued by the Navy.

He was convicted of incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.

His breakthrough came just a couple of years later when the published “Homemade”, his short story about teenage incest.

North Dakota on Monday adopted one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country as Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed legislation banning the procedure at six weeks of pregnancy, even in cases of rape or incest.

Plenty of taboos – incest and morris dancing, for example, to cite Sir Thomas Beecham – are there for a reason.

Republican candidates should stop endorsing all-out bans on abortion, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of the mother, or punishing women who obtain abortions in violation of new state bans, he said.

Savita’s story was vividly evoked by women and men when I covered the 2018 referendum to revoke the Vatican-approved Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which made abortions illegal, even in cases of rape or incest.

Supporters of this repeal measure have stated that the law places children at risk if they are in homes where they are subject to abuse or even incest.

The bill does contain exceptions, when it comes to protecting the life of the mother or in cases of rape and incest up to 15 weeks.

The cult promotes incest in a bid to keep bloodlines 'pure' with the aim being to have as many children as possible.

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Common combinations with incest

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "incest" in a sentence?
An example: "In short, anthropologists were not studying "incest" per se; they were asking informants what they meant by "incest", and what the consequences of "incest" were, in order to map out social relationships within the community." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "incest" from authentic English texts.
What does "incest" mean?
Incest means: Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.
What are synonyms of "incest"?
Common synonyms of "incest" include: unlawful carnal knowledge, criminal congress.
How many example sentences with "incest" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "incest", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.