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incestuously

incestuously

1 9.9
In a way that involves sex between close family members
  • adverb
  • /ɪnˈsɛstəˌwəsli/
  • Offensive
: incestuosamente
  • For example, a brother and sister might be abused by their father and end up bonding (incestuously).

And my mother had been abused incestuously by family member when she was a child and it broke her.

Examples

  • Of the over 20 million American females who have had a sexually abusive experience before adulthood, about 43% have been incestuously abused (Messler-Davies & Frawley, 1994).

    Academic text (2002)
  • The obligation of non-profits is to their sponsors and donors and incestuously to itself.

    Blog text (19)
  • And my mother had been abused incestuously by family member when she was a child and it broke her.

  • But you're like my brother, so it's like my brother asking my advice on how to incestuously bang my cousin.

  • Many victims of child abuse report that they were incestuously harmed by a relative, causing lifelong trauma.

  • The documentary highlighted how siblings were incestuously victimized, leading to complex emotional consequences.

  • Studies indicate that individuals who have been incestuously abused often struggle with trust and relationships later in life.

Surface Forms

incestuously positive

Morphology

incestuously = incestuous (transparent) = incest + uous + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'incestuous', a regular derivation.

Etymology

Incestuously comes from the noun incest and from Latin parts in- 'not' and castus 'pure', the same root as chaste. So incestuously means 'in a not-pure way' that involves close family members or relations.