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noun

the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship.

relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity.

Origin:
1825–35; kin + -ship

Synonyms
1. See relationship. 1, 2. connection. 2. bearing.

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They snap and rankle and connive, honoring only the kinship.

Those pangs are mitigated, though, by a new sense of kinship with graduate students and faculty members.

More generally, this new century will be one where kinship becomes a weaker force.

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They snap and rankle and connive, honoring only the kinship.

Those pangs are mitigated, though, by a new sense of kinship with graduate students and faculty members.

More generally, this new century will be one where kinship becomes a weaker force.

They discovered that each of the baboon's reactions depended on the rank and kinship of the baboons on the tape.

Kinship thus accentuates the importance of selection at the group level as compared with individual selection within the group.

When feelings of kinship transcend the species boundary.

But the real potential of light-emitting diodes comes from their kinship to digital electronics.

Thoreau expressed no sense of kinship with the whales, only a revulsion at the stench.

Shared vocabulary due to borrowing is irrelevant in determining linguistic kinship.

But to date, no evidence has been found that kinship plays role.

She contacted me, it appeared, out of a feeling of kinship.

Having a modest background, a knowledge of hardship or a kinship with the so-called common man doesn't correlate with competence.

And it promises, over time, to favour skills more and kinship less.

However troubling and puzzling, it surely underscores the power of gorilla kinship ties.

But neither do they necessarily feel much kinship with each other, and counselors are bracing for a collision of cultures.

The tribes ignored national borders, adhering to their own territorial boundaries defined by kinship and tradition.

Without this necessary minimal set society breaks down into kinship groups of various kinds.

Traditional agronomy transfers genes between plants whose kinship lets them interbreed.

Ethnic kinship acts as an extended family in a way that ideological kinship which is what we.

Six times members of her kinship group rushed in to repel the lions and tried to get her back on her feet.

Its advanced, flapping wings already show close kinship with modern fliers.

Mootnick was a champion of gibbons who worked to prevent their extinction and also felt a kinship with them.

The kinship foster care program expanded rapidly in the late.

The hierarchical system that baboons use to judge kinship and rank may be similar to the way in which humans decode language.

The fashion industry isn't necessarily known for its kinship with food.

To drive one is to find instant kinship with the late driver's inconsolable legions.

But kinship patterns on the one hand and the functioning of the market on the other are solipsistic systems.

Nurturing a child's sense of kinship with plants requires some effort.

There is an obvious kinship between this search and the balance between composition and improvisation in all of jazz.

Their's is likely to be a form of democracy based less on individual desires and more on communal and kinship needs.

Reid combines shorthand references to the creeds of various cultures, suggesting a fundamental kinship.

They have been best friends since third grade, though the movie offers no indication of any underlying kinship.

She lived with her grandparents, under an arrangement known as kinship foster care.

Polley show a lovely rapport, and a bantering kinship that makes the relationship credible.

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World English Dictionary

kinship (ˈkɪnʃɪp)

—n
1.	blood relationship
2.	the state of having common characteristics or a common origin

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Medical Dictionary

kinship kin·ship (kĭn'shĭp')
n.
Connection by blood, marriage, or adoption; family relationship.

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Cultural Dictionary

kinship definition

A relation between two or more persons that is based on common ancestry (descent) or marriage (affinity).

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