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cousinliness

noun

Etymology

From cousinly + -ness.

  1. derived from *swésōr✻ — “sister”
  2. derived from *swezrīnos✻ — “of or belonging to a sister”
  3. derived from *cōsuīnus✻
  4. derived from cōnsobrīnus — “maternal cousin; first cousin; relation”
  5. derived from cosine — “collateral female relative more distant than one’s sister; form of address used by a monarch to female monarchs or nobles”
  6. derived from cosine
  7. derived from cosine
  8. derived from cosin — “collateral male relative more distant than one’s brother; form of address used by a monarch to male monarchs or nobles”
  9. derived from cosin
  10. derived from cosen
  11. inherited from cosin
  12. suffixed as cousinly — “cousin + ly”
  13. suffixed as cousinliness — “cousinly + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being cousinly.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cousinliness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA