Intermarriage

According to Webster, an intermarriage is a marriage between two families, nations, or tribes -- hence, strictly speaking, any marriage may be called an intermarriage. However, this is surely not the implication of the subject as assigned to me in this essay. The current usage of the term emphasizes the latter part of the definition -- "between two nations or tribes." Intermarriages, then, refer specifically to "mixed" marriages, whereby persons or families of different faiths are united in the...