anti-incest

English

Alternative forms

  • antiincest

Etymology

anti- + incest

Adjective

anti-incest (comparative more anti-incest, superlative most anti-incest)

  1. Opposed to incest.
    • 1990, Jean Elshtein, Power Trips and Other Journeys:
      The mistake on the part of the anti-incest taboo protagonists is not their insistence that we recognize the conventional features of our social arrangements []
    • 2005, Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art, page 449:
      Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).
    • 2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be:
      Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest.

Usage notes

  • anti-incest is several times more common than antiincest in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]

Translations

References

  1. (antiincest*6),anti-incest at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov

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