cousin
noun
the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
cousinhood
-
a word derived from
cousin.
Example Sentences
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The filmmaker recounts the pleasures of cousinhood and family before the hurricane.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Darwinism insists at best on the distant cousinhood of humanity.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2011
This cousinhood, like all the relationships throughout the book, is political, and indicates some close relationship in public affairs.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
If our supposition be correct, therefore, Ellen and Sylvanus were linked by the double bond of cousinhood and matrimony.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
Holmhurst, July 10, 1869.—Your description made me see a pleasant mental picture of the cousinhood assembled at your party.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
