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English
Etymology
From intra- + marry.
Pronunciation
Verb
intramarry (third-person singular simple present intramarries, present participle intramarrying, simple past and past participle intramarried)
- To marry a member of the same group, social stratum, or religion.
1983, Peter S. Li, B. Singh Bolaria, Racial Minorities in Multicultural Canada, page 98: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.
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: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.
1997, Gin Yong Pang, Asian American Intermarriage and the Language of Assimilation, page 81:As for educational achievement, there was virtually no difference in that area between the interracially married and the intramarried Korean American women and spouses.
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