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
For himself Peter had never boasted of their cousinship; but he could not help being a little uplifted at Adriana’s recognition.
From Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
If the plot were of Grider's concocting, did the barbarian know of the cousinship beforehand?
From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde
Gervase saunters in to his hostess's boudoir the next morning, availing himself of the privilege accorded to that distant relationship which it pleases them both to raise into an intimate cousinship.
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida
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