marrying out

Verb

marry out (third-person singular simple present marries out, present participle marrying out, simple past and past participle married out)

1. To marry someone who is from another family; To avoid incest.
   • E. B. Tylor's idea that humans have only one choice, namely either to marry out or to die out, has become the most commonplace functional explanation. The necessity to marry out is always a corollary to the prohibition to marry sisters.1991, Trudeke Vuyk, Children of One Womb
2. To marry someone from a different religion or ethnic group.
   • The opposite supposition is that younger people are more receptive to social change and unconventional ways, thus more likely to marry out at a higher rate.1990, Betty Lee Sung, Chinese American Intermarriage, →ISBN, page 27