Miscegenation Definition

mĭ-sĕjə-nāshən, mĭsĭ-jə-
noun
Marriage or sexual relations between a man and woman of different races, esp., in the U.S., between a white and a black.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Miscegenation

  • Latin miscēre to mix meik- in Indo-European roots genus race genə- in Indo-European roots –ation

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Miscegenation Sentence Examples

  • Miscegenation of blacks and whites was extremely common before emancipation.

  • But though the Brahmans, too, will often acquiesce in the reasonableness of such claims, it is probably only as a matter of policy that they do so, whilst in reality they regard the other two higher castes as having long since disappeared and been merged by miscegenation in the Sudra mass.

  • They promote musical miscegenation, drug use and wanton sexual license.

  • Miscegenation with the Micronesians, the only race in the Pacific which is rapidly increasing, is regarded as the most hopeful manner of preserving the native Fijian population.

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