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miscegenation

noun as in mixed marriage

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In both intent and application, the anti-miscegenation laws were about race, not marriage.

But strict British anti-miscegenation laws limited their opportunities for finding a spouse.

Yes, he does say something about American society, which so frowned on miscegenation in the 1870s.

The Miscegenation Ball was an exception in its otherwise bland, though proficient, catalog.

Miscegenation would follow and a mongrel race would be the result.

There was extensive miscegenation of the two races after the middle of the seventeenth century.

This scarcely half-civilized daughter of miscegenation was a Hecate in the skilful decoction of potent leaves, roots and berries.

There appeared few cases of the miscegenation of the white women with black men but here and there it would recur.

The author says that the presence of African slaves and Indians early gave rise to the problem of miscegenation.

As the Portugese are a good-natured people void of race hate they did not dread the miscegenation of the races.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to miscegenation, such as: interfaith marriage, and intermarriage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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