Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The relationship of cousins; collateral kinship in general.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
cozenage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Relationship; kinship.
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- noun obsolete
relationship ;kinship
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes, great celtic "cousinage" between the Welsh and les Bretons de Bretagne!
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Yes, great celtic "cousinage" between the Welsh and les Bretons de Bretagne!
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Apart from the root complementarity of the sexes, laws and other social sanctions have and do alter various acceptable categorical limitations on marriage (both legal and otherwise) — all of which (race, cousinage, class, ethnicity, occupation, etc.) also fit the social boundary control issues that I identify as the root operation of marriage as it forms and informs civil society.
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They called it a royall looking glasse: howbeit, in regard of the fond fables, wherewith (but for the most part vnder the shew of religion and piety, whereby it is more difficult to finde out the cousinage) it doeth all ouer swarme, it deserueth not the name of a looking glasse royall, but rather of a popular, and olde wiues looking glasse.
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They called it a royall looking glasse: howbeit, in regard of the fond fables, wherewith (but for the most part vnder the shew of religion and piety, whereby it is more difficult to finde out the cousinage) it doeth all ouer swarme, it deserueth not the name of a looking glasse royall, but rather of a popular, and olde wiues looking glasse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Virgin Mary descended of the Ioyal line, and had cousinage of the priests.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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And then they of the line of Levi wedded wives of the line of Judah, so that the line royal and the line of the priests were always joined together by cousinage.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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This cousinage might be made sith the first time, and thus to be nourished from lineage to lineage, and thus should it be certain that the blessed
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Edward and I have a cousinage, though for all he does to keep it up --!
The Awkward Age Henry James 1879
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We had tickets for the second ring, but not for the Inner one, where the Quality were standing; but just before the shooting of the great Match for the Empress's ruby ring, Mr. Pinchin, into whose head some of the bubbles from the white Hungarian had begun to mount, begins to brag about his gentle extraction, and his cousinage to Lady Betty Heeltap and my Lord Poddle.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
madmouth commented on the word cousinage
course at the phonological level if we discount the schwa as a cute nothingness, this word has only 1 vowel!!!
thusly it hurtles toward the final consonant in a very charming way.
October 27, 2015
bilby commented on the word cousinage
One day I'd like to meet madmouth in person, but I fear I have way too many vowels.
October 27, 2015