Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor.
- noun A close affinity or connection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Relationship by blood; the relationship or connection of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor, in distinction from
affinity , or relationship by marriage. - noun In petrography, the genetic relationship existing between those igneous rocks of one locality which have been derived from a common parent magma by processes of differentiation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from
affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship.
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- noun A
consanguineous or family relationship through parentage or descent. Ablood relationship.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (anthropology) related by blood
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term consanguinity here means, within certain limitations defined by the law of nature, the positive law of God, or the supreme authority of State or Church, the blood-relationship (cognatio naturalis), or the natural bond between persons descended from the same stock.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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To blood ties, to civil relationship, a new consanguinity is added,
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When an airline owns a hotel and the hotel offers frequent-flier miles, those should properly be called consanguinity miles.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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When an airline owns a hotel and the hotel offers frequent-flier miles, those should properly be called consanguinity miles.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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When an airline owns a hotel and the hotel offers frequent-flier miles, those should properly be called consanguinity miles.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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When an airline owns a hotel and the hotel offers frequent-flier miles, those should properly be called consanguinity miles.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The uncertain degree of alliance, or consanguinity, is expressed by the words, cognatus, consobrinus, (see Valesius ad Ammian. xxiii.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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When they are related by blood their relationship is called consanguinity; when they are related by marriage it is called affinity; when they are related by being god-parents in Baptism or Confirmation, it is called spiritual affinity; when they are related by adoption, it is called legal affinity.
Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) Anonymous
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This usage proceeded, in part, from the notion of consanguinity between every member of a clan, even of the lowest degree, to his chieftain, and the affability and courtesy with which the head was in the habit of treating those over whom he ruled.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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Blackstone, on consanguinity, which is as follows: --
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804
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