cousinship
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins suggests we all have to deal with “friendship, love, kinship, cousinship and stuff.”
From Seattle Times
"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.
From Project Gutenberg
Shall we establish a sort of cousinship?
From Project Gutenberg
The people amongst whom he lived had married, thriven and multiplied until the population had become one vast cousinship, bound together by that clannish loyalty which, quite apart from pride of name, is ineradicable in the Scots to the present day.
From Project Gutenberg
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