exogamy

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noun marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

From exo- + -gamy. Coined by British lawyer and ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.

This prohibition to marry within the group is now generally called by the name Exogamy. — India, Its Life and Thought, John P. (John Peter) Jones
Both endogamy and exogamy, with a preference for the former, exist so far as the tribe is concerned; but with regard to the social unit of the tribe, the community that shares a common house of assembly, the rule of exogamy is very strictly enforced. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s--not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! — Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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