cousinry

American  

[kuhz-uhn-ree] / ˈkʌz ən ri /

noun

plural

cousinries

1. cousins or relatives collectively.

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Etymology

Origin of cousinry

First recorded in 1835–45; cousin + -ry

Example Sentences

He was a Cockney of the Cockneys, born right beneath Bow Bells themselves; but when you come to gather the threads of his connections, you seem indeed to “Take all England up,” jumping at once to the heart of Westmoreland fells, and traversing every shire in England and Wales for his cousinry.

From Project Gutenberg

As in the case of its cousinry a-land, the bladderwort at its leisure dines upon its prey.

From Project Gutenberg

Among his early friends was Mr. Henry Cromwell, one of the cousinry of the Protector's family: he was a bachelor, and spent most of his time in London; he had some pretensions to scholarship and literature, having translated several of Ovid's Elegies, for Tonson's Miscellany.

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Nothing in the poem equals in intensity the great soliloquy of Miranda before his strange and suicidal leap, and the speech of Clara to the "Cousinry."

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Neither Clara nor Miranda can be compared in dramatic force with his great creations; even Clara's harangue to the Cousinry, with all its passion and flashing scorn, is true rather to her generic character as the injured champion of her dead lord than to her individual variety of it—the woman of subtle, inflexible, yet calculating devotion.

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