consanguineous
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Several children were the result of consanguineous marriages, in which the parents are related.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
“Ninety percent of the cases I see are caused by consanguineous marriages,” says Ms Zaki.
From Economist ● Feb. 25, 2016
With the pianist-brother's recent success, however, the consanguineous harmonies of the trio will no longer be heard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Powerful as many of them have been, they assimilated, in this respect, with nations differently governed, but of consanguineous affinity; they formed a fragment only of a greater and more general civilization.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Thus far the results of the two customs are the same; but in the Banks group consanguineous marriage is checked by public opinion, which in Fiji favours such marriages.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
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