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cousinship

[kuhz-uhn-ship]

noun

  1. the fact or condition of being a cousin or cousins; the relation of cousins to each other.



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They have played for years in Anaheim, in Orange County, yet they’re historically and legally yoked to L.A. in a freeway-friction cousinship to which L.A. is pretty much indifferent but one that grieves Orange County.

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Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins suggests we all have to deal with “friendship, love, kinship, cousinship and stuff.”

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Gloria is the first of our name to depart from the American principles as to help our sworn enemies, so we must repudiate her pronouncements and disclaim the cousinship.

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Shall we establish a sort of cousinship?

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"It is a puzzling situation, certainly," said Armathwaite, quickly alive to the fact that, in Whittaker's presence, at any rate, the cousinship had been dropped.

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