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kinship
[ kin-ship ]
noun
- the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship.
Synonyms: connection
- relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity.
Synonyms: bearing, connection
kinship
/ ˈkɪnʃɪp /
noun
- blood relationship
- the state of having common characteristics or a common origin
kinship
- A relation between two or more persons that is based on common ancestry (descent) or marriage (affinity).
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And yet, the NRA professes no kinship for those being crushed beneath the jackboots.
It was an odd sensation for a Russian Jew to feel kinship with Malcolm X.
But in Hillary Clinton they feel something beyond the usual kinship with a political figure who shares their ideas.
There have been gestures of peace and kinship from both sides.
As far as Sal goes, did you feel a kinship with Rebel Without A Cause after playing James Dean?
Where it is used in the sense of pertaining to kinship—“They are my blody brethren, quod pieres, for God boughte us alle.”
She felt the genuine thing in him somewhere; and, in spite of all, she felt a sort of kinship for him.
He claimed kinship with Turberville, a minor poet of the sixteenth century, and he loved to talk of poetry.
Dalgard did not reply at once, making mind touch not only to ask but to impress his kinship on the sea people.
It makes them feel a sort of kinship with the country of hill-shadows, and strange romance.
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