kinsmanship

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Yet there are no especial indications of exclusiveness or spirit of clique_; rather it is the homely feeling of kinsmanship, which makes the intercourse of relations more familiar and unceremonious, than that of intimate acquaintances or friends Cadets from many powerful houses in all the three kingdoms, were among the early colonists of Maryland.

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  1. Same as kinship. [Rare.] They [Persians and Hindus and their European and American congeners] learn the meaning involved in this providential rediscovery of their original kinsmanship. F. W. Farrar, Families of Speech (1870), p. 54.

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  • Yet there are no especial indications of exclusiveness or spirit of clique_; rather it is the homely feeling of kinsmanship, which makes the intercourse of relations more familiar and unceremonious, than that of intimate acquaintances or friends Cadets from many powerful houses in all the three kingdoms, were among the early colonists of Maryland. —  Border and Bastille
  • Earl of Hereford, and, in right of kinsmanship to the Duke, the —  Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02
  • Within the barrack courtyard there is an end to all friendship, kinsmanship, _camaraderie_, and patronage. —  The Day of Wrath
  • The young men claimed kinsmanship with one another, which those who are learned in the peerage may unravel. —  The Newcomes
  • They took this reserved hospitality as a complimentary admission of their kinsmanship. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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