cousinship
Americannoun
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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
Among the masks he found no one under which he could suppose him to be; this meaningless cousinship of standing parts, footmen, butchers, Moors, ancestors, &c.,—these could not conceal any loved one of Albano's.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Had he done so I think she would have let it pass without rebuke under the guise of cousinship.
From Ayala's Angel by Anthony Trollope
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
The acquaintance between these two began in 1829, and was furthered by a family connection which Margaret, in one of her early letters, playfully characterized as a cousinship in the thirty-seventh degree.
From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Julia Ward Howe
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