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cousinship

noun
/ˈkʌzənˌʃɪp/

Etymology

From cousin + -ship.

  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 cousinship — “cousin + ship”

Definitions

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

    • “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.

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