cousinship

Definitions

The state of being cousins, or the relationship that exists among cousins.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““How long did you reside with him and his sisters after the cousinship was discovered?””

“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.”

“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.”

“He describes a beautiful thought experiment⟳ to demonstrate⟳ a rabbit’s cousinship to a leopard.”

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