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How to pronounce miscegenation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms crossbreeding, interbreeding
Type of breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction
Derivation miscegenate

Examples of miscegenation

miscegenation
Miscegenation is part of the national identity, albeit officially unacknowledged.
From the independent.co.uk
Therefore, at the very least it makes anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional.
From the economist.com
In English, the terms miscegenation and amalgamation have been used for race-mixing.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Lincoln stated he was against miscegenation and blacks to serve as jurors.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It is an industrial miscegenation in which opposites are joining to create a new reality.
From the washingtonpost.com
Running beneath this bright Potomac idyll was the dark and ugly undertow of miscegenation.
From the theatlantic.com
Gobineau originally wrote that white race miscegenation was inevitable.
From the en.wikipedia.org
At one time or another, 38 states had anti-miscegenation laws.
From the chron.com
Are you saying state governments can pass anti-miscegenation laws?
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)
  • Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation.
  • The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage; A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate
  • Sexual intercourse between individuals of differing racial groups. At various times and places (including the American south and South Africa under apartheid) there have been laws prohibiting both sexual intercourse and marriage between racially mixed couples. ...
  • [mi sejuh nAY shuhn, misi juh-] Practice of interracial marriage or sexual contact; found in virtually all colonial ventures. (p. 215)
  • Racially mixed marriages or relationships
  • A term for the undesirable effects of the mixing of different genetic types or populations, especially race groups. Often refers to the very notion of mixing the races.
  • The mixing of human subspecies which through non-selective propagation results in the unnatural merging of separate branches of natural taxons in to unnatural taxons.
  • The marriage or cohabitation between a white person and a member of another race or racially distinct group.