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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
incest
    n 1: sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to
         marry (as between a parent and a child)

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incest \In"cest\, n. [F. inceste, L. incestum unchastity,
   incest, fr. incestus unchaste; pref. in- not + castus chaste.
   See Chaste.]
   The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between
   persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is
   prohibited by law; broadly, sexual relations between closely
   related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer.
   --Shak.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]

   Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law)
   (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who
       have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or
       confirmation.
   (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two
       benefices, the one depending on the collation of the
       other.
       [1913 Webster]

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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
active algolagnia, adultery, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism, autoeroticism, bisexuality, concubinage, coprophilia, criminal conversation, cuckoldry, exhibitionism, extracurricular sex, extramarital relations, fetishism, fornication, free love, free-lovism, heterosexuality, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, incestuousness, lesbianism, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia, passive algolagnia, pedophilia, premarital relations, premarital sex, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia, sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference, swinging both ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, voyeurism, zooerastia, zoophilia
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