Meaning of CONSANGUINITY
| Pronunciation: | | `kânsang'gwinitee
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| | Definition: | | [n] related by blood |
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| | Synonyms: | | blood kinship, cognation |
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| | Antonyms: | | affinity, kinship by marriage | | |
| | See Also: | | family relationship, kinship, relationship | |
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| | Definition: | | \Con`san*guin"i*ty\, n. [L. consanguinitas: cf. F.
consanguintit['e].]
The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from
affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as,
lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.
Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. --Prescott.
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| | Related Terms: | | affiliation, affinity, agnation, alliance, ancestry, apparentation, birth, blood, blood relationship, bloodline, branch, breed, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, common source, common stock, connection, cousinhood, cousinship, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, enation, extraction, family, family relationship, fatherhood, female line, filiation, fraternity, house, kindred, kinship, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, phylum, propinquity, race, relation, relationship, seed, sept, sibship, side, sisterhood, sistership, spear side, spindle side, stem, stirps, stock, strain, succession, sword side, ties of blood |
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