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Definition of incest noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

incest

noun
 
/ˈɪnsest/
 
/ˈɪnsest/
 [uncountable]
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  1. sexual activity between two people who are very closely related in a family, for example, a brother and sister, or a father and daughter
    • incest between brother and sister
    • taboos forbidding incest
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • brother-sister
    • father-daughter
    • etc.
    • …
    verb + incest
    • commit
    • forbid
    • prohibit
    • …
    incest + noun
    • survivor
    • victim
    • taboo
    • …
    preposition
    • incest  between
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin incestus, incestum ‘unchastity, incest’, from in- ‘not’ + castus ‘chaste’.
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