INCEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incest mean? 

• INCEST (noun)
  The noun INCEST has 1 sense:

1. sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)

  Familiarity information: INCEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("incest" is a kind of...):

criminal congress; unlawful carnal knowledge (forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals)

Derivation:

incestuous (relating to or involving incest)

 Context examples 

But when some confessed they owed their greatness and wealth to sodomy, or incest; others, to the prostituting of their own wives and daughters; others, to the betraying of their country or their prince; some, to poisoning; more to the perverting of justice, in order to destroy the innocent, I hope I may be pardoned, if these discoveries inclined me a little to abate of that profound veneration, which I am naturally apt to pay to persons of high rank, who ought to be treated with the utmost respect due to their sublime dignity, by us their inferiors.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)