Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or relation of being twin.

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  • noun uncountable The condition of being a twin
  • noun countable (nautical) Either of a pair of ships of exactly the same design

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Examples

  • There was also the distinct possibility that for Maria, discussion of her own background and her twinship was a taboo subject.

    River Of Desire Taylor, Abra 1982

  • Shakespeare was a father to (non-identical) twins and his farce of false sightings could be seen as a cautious celebration of twinship.

    The Comedy of Errors; Salome; Lift: Life Streaming 2010

  • I guess that says it, really, about the nature of “twinship.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • Born one minute apart, we were a rambunctious twosome, enthralled with our twinship.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • I guess that says it, really, about the nature of “twinship.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • Just recently, against everyone's "better judgment," Rabbi Marc Schneier and I, through The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, created twinship programs where imans speak in synagogues and rabbis speak in mosques.

    Russell Simmons: True Patriots Are Not Silent. They Speak Out. 2009

  • Born one minute apart, we were a rambunctious twosome, enthralled with our twinship.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More Jack Canfield 2009

  • Perhaps Charlottesville should form a twinship with a town in Iran and create a student exchange.

    Why a City Should Oppose Attacking Iran 2008

  • What I am seeing, from a variety of different perspectives, is how crucial empathy is in the healthy development of human beings -- and that when we don't experience some healthy form of mirroring or even more importantly, a sense of twinship with another human being as children, we often grow up with a fist-sized hole in our hearts.

    On Being a Non-Linear Reader William Harryman 2007

  • ‘It is good that you have allowed them to retain the closeness of their twinship and yet at the same time encouraged them to develop their individual and different skills,’ the Professor told Sasha.

    Master of Pleasure Jordan, Penny 2006

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