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
There was one subject which knit the cousinship of the four ever closer—Phil.
From The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer
I began, too, to get terribly jealous of Tom Cleaveland, who, by right of his cousinship, arrived at a degree of intimacy I could not attain.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
What is relative is not unreal; it is simply shared, like cousinship.
From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Alfred H. Lloyd
I have had eighteen years of it already; but I have no Parliamentary influence, nor could I trace a fortieth cousinship with the House of Lords; but, after all, it might be worse.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
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