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Definition of kinship:

  • (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
  • (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption

Sentence Examples:

Is there kinship between the two sets of words?

Already he was proud of his kinship to Carolyn June.

In imagination and poetic feeling, he has some kinship with the Elizabethans.

The source of all pleasure and delight is the feeling of kinship.

The ties of kinship were very strong.

The kinship of this ethics of harmony with the ethical views of antiquity is evident.

Now I rue the kinship I have gained with them.

Perhaps your two children and mine are claiming kinship together.

It gave her a dreadful sense of kinship to the woman fronting her.

It is the same about the stupidity of the one-sided kinship.

It was because of that queer kinship that Ally had divined her.

Any sort of kinship means a great deal to her.

What possible kinship can there be between us?

Never have I seen more exquisite kinship with nature, or more delicate and tender feeling.

Knowledge, decency, kinship, property, tide, sense of possession had all gone.

I have often observed a likeness and, as it were, a kinship between these great minds.

In this view also is restored the kinship of Death with Sleep.

There is a kinship in our souls which must triumph.

Even a wrecked steamer was a thing of kinship to him then.

Through his own unhappiness, he came into kinship with all the misery of the world.

The lyric vein here binds together earlier strains, whose kinship had not appeared.

It declines to make religion the criterion of kinship.

Kinship is a relation peculiar to man, and to the earth.

"I do not desire to insist upon our kinship," said Philip coldly.

He is of my blood, though the kinship is not close.

There is a kinship not of the flesh; and it thrilled all through her.

The single lasting hold in kinship's claim.

The sentiment of voluntary kinship was easy to explain.

For it implies a kinship between him, as a spiritual being, and the whole of existence.

In the mad rush through life we forget the kinship of man to man.

It seems natural, I suppose, that we might be; but kinship doesn't all run in the veins.

There is an old saying about the kinship of pity.

He sees kinship and the immortal spark in each breathing being.

His claims of kinship varied with the circumstances.

Whether it existed or not, there is certainly kinship in their ideas.

A love-full heart has no room for that sort of charity which pities for kinship's sake.

An unknown kinship with Quebec, either in blood or imagination, was calling.

Not a word of kinship or friendship had passed between him and them.

This gives us "a kinship between the mind of man and the universe he lives in."

It has, moreover, the immense advantage of racial kinship and example.

Kinship is always a matter of blood.

There is a double kinship, through the blood of inheritance, and the blood of sacrifice.

The underneath tie of real kinship of heart rubbed out all outer distinctions.

A fierce sense of kinship for that man in the water seized him.

Its kinship to the theories mentioned in the last chapter is clear.

The political kinship of party men dominated all else in those early hours.

Who says something about the kinship of pity?

Greeley and Seward were not friends, but there was much of spiritual kinship between them.

Was I ashamed of my kinship with Zoe?

Seen side by side thus, there could be no mistaking the kinship between the two Mexicans.

There is a good deal of kinship among us in circumstances, after all, as well as in blood.

Yet even then opportunity, combined with the ties of kinship, was too much for him.

Some peoples may not have reached kinship society; none have passed it.

To ties of kinship and language were added ties created by necessity.

They'll hold fast to our favor for reasons of prudence as well as for reasons of kinship.

And from this period onwards the kinship between the two composers becomes more evident.

Not just by coincidence of birth, but by the deeper kinship of our two souls.

He recognized it as a quality of kinship.

We may feel a closer sense of kinship with them on that account.

There is no spiritual kinship whatever between him and Millet.

Kinship, not in kindred, but in universal life, becomes possible.

A country life gives one the pleasant sense of kinship with the earth.

The slight kinship that there is between us is of no account to me.

Before proceeding further, let us see what kinship means.

The lonely spot where we stood had no kinship with human activity.

Are they expressive of kinship or only of status and duties?

These two examples make it abundantly evident that kinship is with us a matter of law.

The existence of these kinship organizations is universally recognized.

The direct descent of the kinship name is obviously the rule.

He writes of painters because he has a kinship with them.

"That great bond of kinship will prove more powerful than anything else."

Their original kinship and united struggles had long been forgotten.

It is right to feel a greater kinship and affection for what lies nearest to oneself.

Gunnar gave them a hearty welcome, for the bonds of kinship were close between them.

In the matter of professional kinship Nelson has far more in common with Hood.

We have prospered in the kinship of the nations.

His claim of kinship with nature surely implies the contrary!

His idea of the essential kinship of all things is very clear and complete.

His heart evidently goes with them: he genuinely claims kinship.

Nor did he feel a greater kinship with the family in the Bronx with which he lodged.

For in both father's and brother's hearts leaped up the warm feeling of kinship.

Gray days are heart days, for it is then that the heart hungers for sympathy, for kinship.

A sense of kinship and interest in them (emotion).

There is no imitation; there is only kinship.

In her gravity, her silence, she seemed at once to claim kinship with them both.

To the Major's family he traced the dimmest line of kinship.

A kinship of suffering and hope with Joyce made him wondrous tender.

His kinship was a true kinship.

I am not to be won over by kinship and displays of affection.

There is nothing against her except her kinship to the son-in-law.

It was a laugh which had no kinship to mirth.

Sim Gage did not know the dangerous kinship that pity holds.

For a moment the spy felt a certain kinship.

He would have been on terms of recognized kinship with Sydney Smith and Charles Lamb.

It is far away, but then there's kinship.

"The kinship is of honor, not of blood, Sahib," he answered.

Many styles to-day are marks of our kinship with the East.

He knew his kinship to Divinity so well that he did not even think to assert it.

The whole world feels the thrill of kinship and a common humanity.

In the nation the kinship was racial only.