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What is another word for Cousinship?

Pronunciation: [kˈʌzənʃˌɪp] (IPA)

Cousinship means the relationship between cousins. However, there are several other terms that can be used to express this concept. One such term is cousinhood, which is largely synonymous with cousinship. Other synonyms for cousinship include kinship, kindred, and consanguinity. Additionally, the term cousinage can also be used interchangeably with cousinship. Each of these terms describes the familial bond that exists between two individuals who share a common ancestor. While they may differ in terms of their level of formality, they all refer to the same essential idea of the relationship between cousins.
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The rest of the cousins are ladies and gentlemen of various ages and capacities; the major part, amiable and sensible, and likely to have done well enough in life if they could have overcome their Cousinship; as it is, they are almost all a little worsted by it, and lounge in purposeless and listless paths, and seem to be quite as much at a loss how to dispose of themselves as anybody else can be how to dispose of them.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
In view of their nearness to Cousinship the ceremony of surname had been promptly discarded by Mr. Foster, but Ester was unable to recover from a sort of awe with which he had at first inspired her, and this opening sentence appeared to be a confusing one, for she flushed deeply and only bowed her answer.
"Ester Ried"
Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
They were cousin, however, to Eugene Wellington, a young artist of more than ordinary merit, also orphaned and alone, except for a sort of Cousinship with Uncle Cornelius.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter

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