cousinship

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English

Etymology

From cousin +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

Noun

cousinship (countable and uncountable, plural cousinships)

  1. The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.
    Synonym: cousinhood
    Hypernym: kinship
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre‎:
      “How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?”
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles‎:
      His creed of determinism was such that it almost amounted to a vice, and quite amounted, on its negative side, to a renunciative philosophy which had cousinship with that of Schopenhauer and Leopardi.
    • 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah‎:
      What he repudiated was cousinship with the ape, and the implied suspicion of a rudimentary tail, because it was offensive to his sense of his own dignity, and because he thought that apes were ridiculous, and tails diabolical when associated with the erect posture.
    • 2009 October 11, Nicholas Wade, “Evolution All Around”, in The New York Times‎:
      He describes a beautiful thought experiment to demonstrate a rabbit’s cousinship to a leopard.

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