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Example sentences for "cousinship"

Lexicographically close words:
cousen; cousin; cousine; cousinly; cousins; cousteau; coustume; coutant; coute; couteau
  1. That degree of finish was surely rare among us--rare at a time when the charm of so much of the cousinship and the uncleship, the kinship generally, had to be found in their so engagingly dispensing with any finish at all.

  2. In the totem system all the women of his mother's totem were tabooed to a man, although their cousinship to himself might be very remote.

  3. Marriage with a father's relative to the remotest cousinship is forbidden, but consanguinity through the mother they do not notice at all.

  4. I have a cousinship with him in that taste--but how to find space in one's life for all the subjects that solicit one?

  5. In his eyes, Theory is too fine a dame to confess even a country-cousinship with coarse handed Practice, whose homely ways would disconcert her artificial world.

  6. The physical is a truer antitype of the spiritual man than we are willing to admit, and the brain is often forced to acknowledge the inconvenient country-cousinship of the stomach.

  7. It is not a cousinship she could be very proud of.

  8. She will have as much cause to be proud of your cousinship as of having me for a husband,' said Greif, stopping in his walk and looking at Rex.

  9. There was one subject which knit the cousinship of the four ever closer--Phil.

  10. Seventeenth cousinship was all very well, but he had better face the facts.

  11. The real agent in the tardy or non-recognition of the cousinship thus created, was the conservative force of old habit and tradition.

  12. There is some cousinship between us; I forget exactly in what degree.

  13. It was when Anna Gascoigne, visiting the Meyricks; was led to speak of her cousinship with Gwendolen.

  14. However, this cousinship with the duchess came out by chance one day that Mirah was with them at home and they were talking about the Mallingers.

  15. Cousinship had limits but no one knew enough to fix them.

  16. And our king counts cousinship with most of the high families in the archipelago, and traces his descent to a shark and a heroic woman.

  17. But there, I do not wish our cousinship to end.

  18. There is still a longish story to tell, and I will tell it all to you; but for the present we must keep up our play of cousinship until the truth can be safely told.

  19. He talked of cousinship and brotherhood, and yet gave you to know that he meant you to be his wife.

  20. She understood it with a half understanding,--feeling that in all this he was in truth making love to her, and yet telling herself that he said no more than cousinship might warrant.

  21. Cousinship is a great convenience to their feelings, I should say?

  22. I HAVE recognized that the cousinship was merely nominal, since we met as total strangers.

  23. And as to Lady Selina, it was well known to the Winterbourne cousinship that she could never get a maid to stay with her six months.

  24. There was a tie of cousinship between them, and a considerable difference of age.

  25. La Tour are delighted to claim cousinship through these New York Browns.

  26. She is always ready for a new experience, and is eager to meet Madame La Tour, who claims cousinship with her.

  27. It was all their own fault; they forced the cousinship upon me.

  28. Sink the cousin if you choose, dear Hanne; cousinship is not worth much, and let the term friend supersede it.

  29. Alice's intimacy and cousinship with Lady Glencora; "it's the very last thing I should have dreamt of.

  30. She certainly is not mine, nor can her cousinship afford any justification for her interfering in my affairs.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cousinship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affiliation; alliance; ancestry; blood; brotherhood; connection; consanguinity; filiation; fraternity; kindred; kinship; maternity; motherhood; paternity; propinquity; relation; relationship; sisterhood