kinship

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kinship

noun affiliation, affinity, association, bond, brotherhood, closeness, cognation, connection, family, family connection, kindredship, link, propinquity, relation, relationship, tie

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Exogamy compounded by illegitimacy thus defines Ursule's distinctness from the bourgeois cousinage.

'...im Gefuge der Sprachen'. Studien zu System und Soziologie der Dialekte. Festschrift fur Robert Hunderling zum 60. Geburstag

In a quintessentially Binfieldian tour-de-force, we encounter, in the shape of interconnected dynasties and cousinages, the eager expectations of premillenial evangelicals, Irvingites or semi-Irvingites, Christian Jews, a considerable feature in the early Victorian evangelical, dissenting landscape, and societies for the conversion of the Jews, an essential component in the eschatological mentality and strategy.

Prophecy and Eschatology

aient pu trouver des cousinages reels et profonds entre leur culture et celle des autochtones, et que l'ensauvagement des colons fut un phenomene bien reel.