Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state of union as in a family or clan; association under a chieftain.
- noun Membership in a clan.
- noun The feeling or spirit of attachment and loyalty to one's clan or fraternity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
united together, as if in aclan ; anassociation under achieftain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'It seems to be a kind of clanship with women; hardly even that.'
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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'It seems to be a kind of clanship with women; hardly even that.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'It seems to be a kind of clanship with women; hardly even that.'
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The system of Egba 'clanship' is a favourite, sometimes an engrossing, topic for invective with the local press, who characterise this worst species of 'trades-union,' founded upon intimidation and something worse, as the 'Aku tyranny' and the 'Aku
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Anthropologist T.O. Beidelman, who did extensive work in Kaguru and other matrilineal societies in East Africa, asked a Kaguru speaker to explain the meaning of lineage and clanship.
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Yet I will not go back to the days of clanship and claymores.
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Patrous; and (2) the maintenance of the ties of clanship.
Hellenica 2007
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When my streak of A's ended after I scored a B-minus on Evan's paper about clanship in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," I never heard from him again.
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Had the clanship feeling been universally as strong as in the Chickerel family, the fable of the well-bonded fagot might have remained unwritten.
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He has no clanship, no friendships, that warp him.
Uncollected Prose 2006
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