anti-incest
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]anti-incest (comparative more anti-incest, superlative most anti-incest)
- Opposed to incest.
- 1990, Jean Elshtein, Power Trips and Other Journeys:
- The mistake on the part of the anti-incest taboo protagonists is not their insistence that we recognize the conventional features of our social arrangements […]
- 2005, Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleolithic Art, page 449:
- Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).
- 2012, Tracy Morrissey, Pot Psychology's How to Be:
- Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest.
Usage notes
[edit]- anti-incest is several times more common than antiincest in print.[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid doubling a vowel except after short prefixes.[2]
Translations
[edit]opposing incest
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References
[edit]- ^ (antiincest*6),anti-incest at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov