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 • Aug. 23, 2022
Actually, it is something between prose and poetry that Nabokov has used�he has retained Pushkin's iambic tetrameter�and the result is a recognizable and respectable cousinship.
From Time Magazine Archive
The novel's outstanding quality is its cozy cousinship with a major American literary pattern�the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town.
From Time Magazine Archive
I invited him in, and as the cavalier was so free with his cousinship, I could easily perceive that he was not of the neighbourhood.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav
It was all their own fault; they forced the cousinship upon me.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
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