cousin-german

American  

[kuhz-uhn-jur-muhn] / ˈkʌz ənˈdʒɜr mən /

noun

• cousins-german
  plural

1. Archaic. cousin.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cousins-german
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cousin-german

First recorded in 1250–1300, cousin-german is from Middle English cosin germain. See cousin , german

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cousin-german cousins-german

Marvel comics has perhaps had the most success with Captain Britain, created 26 years ago by classic X-Men scribe Chris Claremont to act as a Captain America cousin-german for British readers.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2013

Harriet, the only daughter, was married to her mother's cousin-german, Captain James Dalzell, uncle of Robert Earl of Carnwath.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. by Mrs. Thomson

"A cousin, I think, a simple cousin-german they tell me," said John, drily; "and in a matter of betters, now—eh?"

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

"For my part," said Amazan, "my intention is to return to Babylon, of which I am the presumptive heir, and to ask of my uncle Belus the hand of my cousin-german, the incomparable Formosanta."

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

His nearest surviving collateral relation is the Hon. David Davis, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who is his only cousin-german.

From Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis by John A. J. Creswell

The similitude was heightened, if not originally suggested, by glimpses of the surrounding sea; since, in one aspect, the country and the ocean seem cousins-german.

From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Two cousins-german, six more distant kinsmen, his factor and his chamberlain, were all hollow votes; and the Girnington interest had always carried, betwixt love and fear, about as many more.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott

If the dead man left no children, all his brothers inherited his property, having equal shares therein; and if he had no brothers, his cousins-german would inherit; if he had no cousins, all his kinsmen.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

Besides, they were related, being born of cousins-german.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

Thus we write fathers-in-law, sons-in-law, knights-errant, courts-martial, cousins-german, hangers-on, comings-in, goings-out, goings-forth, varying the first; and manhaters, manstealers, manslayers, maneaters, mandrills, handfuls, spoonfuls, mouthfuls, pailfuls, outpourings, ingatherings, downsittings, overflowings, varying the last.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown