consanguinity

[kon-sang-gwin-i-tee]

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noun

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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Related Words for consanguinity

lineage, agnate, cognate, affiliation, kindred, strain, connection, race, affinity, kin, brotherhood, sisterhood, kinship, filiation, kindredship

Examples from the Web for consanguinity

Contemporary Examples of consanguinity

For them, it was "consanguinity of spirit" that attracted their friendship, and not "common point of view."
David's Book Club: Within a Budding Grove
David Frum
July 15, 2012
The results suggest an alarming Republican consanguinity with the anti-Obama birther conspiracy theorists.
Is the South Ruining the GOP?
Lloyd Grove
August 10, 2009

Historical Examples of consanguinity

Moreover, there is that little knot of consanguinity to be considered.
The Book of Khalid
Ameen Rihani
Not the matter of consanguinity, they're about a sixteenth cousin.
Space Viking
Henry Beam Piper
We find a taboo on the union of persons related by consanguinity or affinity.
Folkways
William Graham Sumner
Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.
Familiar Quotations
John Bartlett
They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2
Egerton Ryerson

British Dictionary definitions for consanguinity

consanguinity

noun

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

Derived Formsconsanguineous or consanguine, adjectiveconsanguineously, adverb

Word Origin for consanguinity

C14: see con-, sanguine

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Word Origin and History for consanguinity

c.1400, from Middle French consanguinité, from Latin consanguinitatem (nominative consanguinitas), from consanguineus "consanguineous, of the same blood," from com- "together" (see com-) + sanguineus "of blood" (see sanguine).

consanguinity in Medicine

consanguinity

[kŏn′săng-gwĭn′ĭ-tē]

n.

Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor.