blood-relationship

Richard Bauckham writes 'Palestinian Jewish-Christian circles in the early church used the title ‘brother of the Lord’ not simply to identify the brothers, but as ascribing to them an authoritative status, and therefore the brothers themselves, not wishing to claim an authority based on mere blood-relationship to Jesus, avoided the term...'

Early Converted Skeptics? James F. McGrath 2009

You know well that no King or Queen of Valdemar can wed a subject who is within the third degree of blood-relationship.

Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

You know well that no King or Queen of Valdemar can wed a subject who is within the third degree of blood-relationship.

Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

There was the small matter of needing a physical bond however-Ma'ar had used the bond of blood-relationship 'Could another bond serve as well?

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

There was the small matter of needing a physical bond however-Ma'ar had used the bond of blood-relationship 'Could another bond serve as well?

Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Mr. Garrison spoke at his funeral, calling him "a brother beloved incomparably beyond all blood-relationship." ... went to hear the Jubilee

Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage 1955

She usually saw this church floating in the air; but it is noteworthy that in all the feasts having so to speak a blood-relationship with Jesus Christ or with the mysteries of His life, she saw this church not floating in the air but appearing as the crown of a pillar or of a stern thrusting itself up like a flower or fruit growing out of the earth.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

Dangerously ill, and yet here had been his uncle able to go through with -- not entirely calmly, to be sure; Adrian remembered the lack of attention, the broken eye-glasses; and yet, still able to go through with, not obviously shaken, this monthly farce; this dinner that in reality mocked all the real meaning of blood-relationship.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

First, attention must be paid to the patriotic solidarity existing [241] amongst the bondsmen, a solidarity which, in the case of those who had been deported in the same ship, had all the sanctity of blood-relationship.

West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

The theory which postulates the blood-relationship of individuals of the same species may be correct, but it is utterly incapable of proof, and the same is true in a greater degree when there is question of individuals of the same class but of different species.

At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert