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miscegenation

[ mi-sej-uh-ney-shuhn, mis-i-juh- ]

noun

  1. marriage or cohabitation between two people from different racial groups, especially, in the U.S., between a Black person and a white person:

    In 1967 the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that state laws prohibiting miscegenation were unconstitutional.

  2. sexual relations between two people from different racial backgrounds resulting in the conception of a mixed-race child.


miscegenation

/ ˌmɪsɪdʒɪˈnɛtɪk; ˌmɪsɪdʒɪˈneɪʃən /

noun

  1. interbreeding of races, esp where differences of pigmentation are involved


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Derived Forms

  • miscegenetic, adjective

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Other Words From

  • mis·ce·ge·net·ic [mis-i-j, uh, -, net, -ik, mi-sej-, uh, -], adjective
  • anti·misce·ge·nation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of miscegenation1

Irregular formation from Latin miscē(re) “to mix” + Latin gen(us) “race, stock, species” + English -ation noun suffix; allegedly coined by U.S. journalist David Goodman Croly (1829–89) in a pamphlet published anonymously in 1864; -ation

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Word History and Origins

Origin of miscegenation1

C19: from Latin miscēre to mingle + genus race

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Example Sentences

In both intent and application, the anti-miscegenation laws were about race, not marriage.

But strict British anti-miscegenation laws limited their opportunities for finding a spouse.

Yes, he does say something about American society, which so frowned on miscegenation in the 1870s.

The Miscegenation Ball was an exception in its otherwise bland, though proficient, catalog.

Miscegenation would follow and a mongrel race would be the result.

There was extensive miscegenation of the two races after the middle of the seventeenth century.

This scarcely half-civilized daughter of miscegenation was a Hecate in the skilful decoction of potent leaves, roots and berries.

There appeared few cases of the miscegenation of the white women with black men but here and there it would recur.

The author says that the presence of African slaves and Indians early gave rise to the problem of miscegenation.

As the Portugese are a good-natured people void of race hate they did not dread the miscegenation of the races.

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