consanguinity
[kon-sang-gwin-i-tee]
- relationship by descent from a common ancestor; kinship (distinguished from affinity).
- close relationship or connection.
Origin of consanguinity
1350–1400; Middle English consanguinite (< Anglo-French) < Latin consanguinitās. See consanguineous, -ity
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Examples from the Web for consanguinity
Contemporary Examples
For them, it was "consanguinity of spirit" that attracted their friendship, and not "common point of view."
The results suggest an alarming Republican consanguinity with the anti-Obama birther conspiracy theorists.
Historical Examples
Moreover, there is that little knot of consanguinity to be considered.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
Not the matter of consanguinity, they're about a sixteenth cousin.
Space VikingHenry Beam Piper
We find a taboo on the union of persons related by consanguinity or affinity.
FolkwaysWilliam Graham Sumner
Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.
Familiar QuotationsJohn Bartlett
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2Egerton Ryerson
consanguinity
- relationship by blood; kinship
- close affinity or connection
- geology (of igneous rocks) similarity of origin, as shown by common mineral and chemical compositions and often texture
Word Origin
C14: see con-, sanguine
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Word Origin and History for consanguinity
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consanguinity
(kŏn′săng-gwĭn′ĭ-tē)
- Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor.
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