Meaning of cousinliness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being cousinly.

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Examples

“Unkindness would have⟳ implied intimacy, or, at any rate, cousinliness, whereas, but for his presence in her boudoir, and his familiar tone with her mother, a stranger might have⟳ supposed the two young people to be the merest casual acquaintances.”

“Now perhaps you will understand⟳ why, feeling this exuberance of joy and loving kindness as I mostly do, and your defenceless head having popped up within my range of late, I shower so much affection on you—quite passing the mild limits of cousinliness.”

“There was no way that Elizabeth, with her own⟳ particular nature, could have⟳ indulged in feelings of sisterliness or cousinliness towards Mary, as she had to defend⟳ herself: it was ultimately survival.”

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