Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as kinship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Kinship.

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  • noun kinship

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Examples

  • You help to provide people from all over the country, the world, with a kinsmanship.

    Think Progress » The United States is “losing the online war against terrorists.” 2006

  • The young men claimed kinsmanship with one another, which those who are learned in the peerage may unravel.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • The soft Spanish language, as it fell from their lips, was rich as the taste of that Spanish wine on the tongue, and stirred in my heart a pride of kinsmanship.

    The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

  • The words "None of you shall approach to any one that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness," [2532] embraces also this form of kinsmanship, for what could be more akin to a man than his own wife, or rather than his own flesh?

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Her cousin's tone of kinsmanship and friendliness was so genuine and unforced that she and her mother both accepted it naturally, and forgot for the moment that, to a little-minded man, such friendliness might have been difficult and perhaps impossible.

    A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel Harry Coghill 1871

  • They took this reserved hospitality as a complimentary admission of their kinsmanship.

    Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

  • Within the barrack courtyard there is an end to all friendship, kinsmanship, _camaraderie_, and patronage.

    The Day of Wrath M��r J��kai 1864

  • Yet there are no especial indications of exclusiveness or spirit of _clique_; rather it is the homely feeling of kinsmanship, which makes the intercourse of relations more familiar and unceremonious, than that of intimate acquaintances or friends.

    Border and Bastille 1851

  • Hereford, and, in right of kinsmanship to the Duke, the Norman's beloved baron and grand seneschal, William Fitzosborne, who, though in Normandy even he sate not at the Duke's table, was, as related to his lord, invited by Edward to his own.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Earl of Hereford, and, in right of kinsmanship to the Duke, the

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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