incest

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   sexual relations between people whose close family relationship makes such relations illegal or socially prohibited

   The law defines which degrees of kinship make a relationship incest.

A learned borrowing from Latin incestus ("impure, unchaste"), formed from in- ("not") + castus ("pure, chaste").

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