Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Relationship as of cousins.
- noun Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Relationship as of cousins - noun The state or quality of being a
cousin - noun Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively
Etymologies
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Examples
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Let's have two variables named C ( "cousinhood") and R ( "generations removed").
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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According to popular mythology, World War I broke out largely because of a decadent, inbred cousinhood that ruled over the Old World's dynastic empires in a way that was undemocratic but also competitive, promoting an arms race that their pacific European subjects could not prevent and that could only end in war.
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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Once you begin doing genealogy, the concept of cousinhood becomes pretty ho hum.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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One suspects that Ms. Carter skimps on her discussion of Franz Josef because he was only distantly related to the book's "cousinhood."
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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Once you begin doing genealogy, the concept of cousinhood becomes pretty ho hum.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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One suspects that Ms. Carter skimps on her discussion of Franz Josef because he was only distantly related to the book's "cousinhood."
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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According to popular mythology, World War I broke out largely because of a decadent, inbred cousinhood that ruled over the Old World's dynastic empires in a way that was undemocratic but also competitive, promoting an arms race that their pacific European subjects could not prevent and that could only end in war.
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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One suspects that Ms. Carter skimps on her discussion of Franz Josef because he was only distantly related to the book's "cousinhood."
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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According to popular mythology, World War I broke out largely because of a decadent, inbred cousinhood that ruled over the Old World's dynastic empires in a way that was undemocratic but also competitive, promoting an arms race that their pacific European subjects could not prevent and that could only end in war.
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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Netta Franklin, her sister Lily, and other members of the Franklin cousinhood reveal an extraordinary family involvement in both the equal rights and social welfare aspects of Anglo-Jewish feminism during the first half of the twentieth century.
Henrietta Franklin. 2009
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