Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being cousins; relationship by blood; cousinhood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.
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- noun the state of being
cousins , the relationship ofcousins
Etymologies
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Examples
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But among the Moslem tribes, I am told, female cousinship is not recognised.
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Any other kind of cousinship can be so elusive and distant that by itself it tells us very little about a relationship, even if it could be established.
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John's "cousinship" afforded an excellent basis for informal companionship, and Clementine gave it full prominence.
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The cousinship is a distant one; but there is no question, whatever, as to his being next in succession to myself to the peerage. "
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Both Kyra and Kevin fall into the colonial American category for an interesting taste of Kyra's family history, read In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family by John Sedgwick, so while their cousinship wasn't a given, it's not shocking either.
Megan Smolenyak: 6 Degrees of Separation: Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Are Cousins
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Both Kyra and Kevin fall into the colonial American category for an interesting taste of Kyra's family history, read In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American Family by John Sedgwick, so while their cousinship wasn't a given, it's not shocking either.
Megan Smolenyak: 6 Degrees of Separation: Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Are Cousins
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In my cousinship there are eight members, five of whom are lawyers and all of whom went to Jesuit schools or Notre Dame.
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In my cousinship there are eight members, five of whom are lawyers and all of whom went to Jesuit schools or Notre Dame.
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"We talked and talked and talked, and it was a real-deal cousinship," says Davis.
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Not only do I have to put in lots of mutational work in order to end up so different in humans and kangaroos, despite our close cousinship according to this tree, I also have to put in lots of mutational work in the other direction, in order to ensure that, despite their great separation on this particular tree, humans and chimps somehow ended up with such similar haemoglobin-A.
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