kinship
the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship.
relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity.
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How to use kinship in a sentence
It’s not really surprising that gymnasts, regardless of geographic location and national origin, would feel a kinship with one another.
Why It’s Not Surprising That Simone Biles Cheered For Angelina Melnikova | Dvora Meyers | July 30, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightSo many of our programs and services – from kinship care to homeless youth outreach to educational enrichment – are not bound by brick-and-mortar buildings.
Those conversations are often marked by binary thinking and easy categorization, although how race and culture shape identity, kinship, and solidarity are much more complicated.
I Didn't Consider My Marriage Interracial. But I Wasn't Being Totally Honest With Myself | Naima Coster | March 4, 2021 | TimeSeveral of the pictures suggest landscapes, a kinship the artist has taken to heart.
In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past | Mark Jenkins | February 19, 2021 | Washington PostJoy is also the feeling that can arise from sensing kinship with others, experiencing harmony between what we are doing and our values, or seeing the significance in an action, a place, a conversation or even an inanimate object.
How to find joy during tough times | By Angela Gorrell/The Conversation | October 9, 2020 | Popular-Science
And yet, the NRA professes no kinship for those being crushed beneath the jackboots.
It was an odd sensation for a Russian Jew to feel kinship with Malcolm X.
But in Hillary Clinton they feel something beyond the usual kinship with a political figure who shares their ideas.
There have been gestures of peace and kinship from both sides.
Caught Between Empires, Ukraine Can’t Rely on the West for its Independence | Roman Skaskiw | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs far as Sal goes, did you feel a kinship with Rebel Without A Cause after playing James Dean?
James Franco On ‘Sal,’ Banksy, His Gay Fascination, and That Faulkner Cover | Marlow Stern | November 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhere it is used in the sense of pertaining to kinship—“They are my blody brethren, quod pieres, for God boughte us alle.”
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanShe felt the genuine thing in him somewhere; and, in spite of all, she felt a sort of kinship for him.
When Valmond Came to Pontiac, Complete | Gilbert ParkerHe claimed kinship with Turberville, a minor poet of the sixteenth century, and he loved to talk of poetry.
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh | George W. FooteDalgard did not reply at once, making mind touch not only to ask but to impress his kinship on the sea people.
Star Born | Andre NortonIt makes them feel a sort of kinship with the country of hill-shadows, and strange romance.
Historic Fredericksburg | John T. Goolrick
British Dictionary definitions for kinship
/ (ˈkɪnʃɪp) /
blood relationship
the state of having common characteristics or a common origin
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for kinship
A relation between two or more persons that is based on common ancestry (descent) or marriage (affinity).
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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