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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:

He had known little of the family kinship and connections, and it seemed as if an adverse fate pursued his attempts to find the hidden links which bind together the people of a great city.

One might as well cite the word ensemble to prove the original identity or kinship between English and French.

His most valuable influence often consists in rendering his students sympathetic and in making them feel a sense of kinship with life.

Here still, I did occasionally see one who not only favored some of our people in form and features, but whose voice and accent also spoke of kinship.

Hamza listened to her story with indignation, and determined to revenge the insult to his uncle and foster-brother, for by the ties of kinship they were one.

Over one ear, or both, in the hair, on the head, around the neck, both sexes were passionately fond of this age-old sign of kinship with nature.

As they reviewed the greatness of the danger and foresaw the obscurity and uncertainty of the issue, and still stood in some awe of their common ancestry and kinship, they were led to delay.

Between her and him there was a singular spiritual kinship, which by some inexplicable process, so to say, of psychic collaboration, had resulted in the writings to which he had given her name.

Americans still called themselves Englishmen and Robert instantly had a feeling of kinship for the young officer who had a frank and good face.

What he desires is to express the kinship, the enthusiasm of generous hearts, to make an echo in the souls of a few like-minded people.

He was well aware that a great many men find the ties resulting from some common transgression stronger to unite them than the obligations of lawful association or the bonds of kinship.

When the man goes into the wilderness to change into a hunter that surviving kinship with the savage revives in his being, and all unconsciously dominates him with driving passion.

There are traces of a tendency to keep the office (if it may be called one) in the same kinship.

How that haughty head of hers would bend if she knew of her grandmother's sin, even did she learn nothing of her own and that sin's kinship!

However, the matter of kinship did not please some, and that was all that he needed, for there was excuse then for him if he forbade that match, which was the last he wanted.

We feel a kinship of mood rather than of theme, a coherence that we fear to relate to definite figures, though the descending symbol is clear against the ascending.

The sense of kinship is stronger, the imperial sentiment has grown deeper, the feeling of responsibility has broadened.

I speak of this because my steadfast wish to preserve forever the kinship and love existing in the past and present between the most serene King and myself has been made manifest by my deeds.

Nay, there was some feeling of compassion, some sense that this animal has a certain kinship with man.

Let your thought sink to the depths of the ocean, and realize your kinship with the Life back of the forms dwelling there.

Born out of the same inexplicable soil bred to the same problems of star and wind and sun, what absurdity of civilization is it that has robbed men of this sense of kinship?

And beneath her wisdom, at the bottom of all, is her sense of our kinship through liberty defined and assured by law.

We have already noticed the analogy of situations and the kinship of theories contained in George Sand's best plays and in the most noted ones by Dumas.

Nowadays, of course, all students recognize that there may not be, and often is not, the slightest connection between kinship in blood and kinship in tongue.

A brother of the bride, for instance, is always chosen for this aisle because he is best fitted to look out for his own relatives and to place them according to their near or distant kinship.

There seems little doubt that the framework of ancient society rested on the basis of kinship, and that the structure of the ancient gens brought the mother and child into the same gens.

Perhaps, too, this feeling was the real reason for Phil's sense of kinship with the stranger, for the cowboy himself had moments in his life that he could permit no man to look upon.

They did not know their royal descent, their kinship with the Father, and therefore they did not act as became sons.

He likes to account in this manner for the feeling of kinship which attracts him to all created things.

And indeed there seemed some curious kinship between the horse and the lad, perhaps because the barrier of keen human mind was not between them.

Then he has come into his inheritance and can claim his kinship with the teachers of men; he is upright, he has raised his head, he breathes the same air that they do.

After several discussions, they recognized our intellectual and social kinship with them; and they returned all our belongings.

The thunder roared, the lightning flashed, the grass whispered, while I sang and felt myself in close kinship with nature's music.

He seemed instinctively to know facts about the kinship of soil and seed that other men had to learn from books or experience.

In that sense, at least, his kinship is with the great conservative revolution of the generation which followed him.

To some of his sisters, blood and tribal, the Australian may not speak at all; to others only at certain distances, according to the degree of kinship.

Nevertheless, I saw a likeness between them deeper than some family trick of expression which, now and again, made me feel their kinship.

He had not previously entertained a thought of it as a career, but his first hearing of Beethoven's music decided him to adopt it, such was the kinship between these two minds.

At the end of the war the men who survive will acknowledge no kinship save the kinship of courage.

She has never yet seen her father's sister, though she still thinks of her, and sometimes with a strange longing for an evidence of kind feeling and kinship which has never been shown.

There was no reference to his mother or to their kinship, and the boy began at once to feel at ease.

Their tendency to symmetrical distribution on the two hands is marked, and symmetry is a form of kinship.

I knew those things, and, knowing them, gave them a cheer for the sake of Australia, for the sake of the kinship which binds us as no bonds of steel could bind us and them.

The more different kinds of things a child thus gets to know by treating and handling them, the more confident grows his sense of kinship with the world in which he lives.

There is nothing in which families differ more by nature than in the qualities of heart which bind them together or easily release them from the bonds of kinship.

To-day, while it is not less but more personal and original than it was, it has more kinship with the noble achievements of Raphael and Veronese than has any other modern work extant.

She looked at Ishmael as though it were she he was angry with, and felt a ridiculous kinship with Nicky.

Of course, if they are favorably made and are not tied by kinship duties, they may run away from the industrial battlefield.

The warrior taking the prisoner has the first right to adopt him, and his male or female relatives have the right in the order of their kinship.

There is no place in a tribe for any person whose kinship is not fixed, and only those persons can be adopted into the tribe who are adopted into some family with artificial kinship specified.

And I insist, therefore, that you shall know with the knowledge of kinship this humanity with whom you are to work and for whom you are to work.

This family connection may have had something to do with their years of close intimacy; but we shall find better reason for it than in this kinship.

In other words, in the recognition of kinship one entire side of the family is usually left clean out of account.

Thanks to the organizing power of kinship, primitive society has grown, and by growing has stretched the birth-tie until it snaps.

It is, however, probable, if not certain, that he could claim some sort of kinship with them, though more or less remote.

Herself a poet, from her earliest knowledge of the work of Edgar Poe she had seemed to feel a kinship between her mind and his such as she had known in regard to no other.

Then turned to face his ally, feeling a fierce kinship as deep and true as any he had ever experienced.

If this were done in the present case, the result would be to extend the prohibition to all the persons embraced under the kinship term.

In the ordinary tribe each member seems to apply to every other member one or other of the kinship terms; and this no doubt accounts for the feeling of tribal solidarity already mentioned.

The composition of the local group varies according to the customs of residence after marriage, and the rules by which membership of the kinship organization is determined.

In other words, where kinship is reckoned in the female line, there is no ground for supposing that it was ever hereditary in any other way.

How far the occurrence of identical kinship organization and nomenclature should be taken as indicating a still larger unity than the nation is a difficult question.

It has already been pointed out that reckoning of descent in the male line tends to bring about local grouping of the kinship organizations.

It is hard to be disappointed in love, but after all it is a rather splendid misery in which one may have a sense of kinship with earth's greatest and best; and it has its hopes, its consolations.

She glanced across the aisle at the dwarf woman, and their eyes met, and suddenly a curious sort of feeling of kinship came over the girl.

The hands of the two New Englanders met a second time in the touch of kinship and understanding.

The forms of existence with which they deal seem widely separated; but a strong kinship exists between them, for all that.

For in all the world there remained not one living soul who through ties of kinship was authorized to properly control these children.

It may be a truth first known by revelation, but if the human intelligence is capable of receiving it in revelation it must have some element of kinship to the truths of pure reason.

These two remarkable men, who have done so much to rouse their people, have more than racial kinship in common.

In this gentle mood a tenderness had come into view that drew her to him with a touch of kinship.

She was out of tune with the sunlight and warmth; she wanted to get close to life again and feel, as she had earlier, the kinship and joy, but the mood had passed.

This may be ruled out as not based on facts; but it remains as an evidence of a sense of kinship of a practical kind.

Science describes nature, but it cannot feel nature; still less can it account for that sense of kinship with nature which is so characteristic of many of the foremost thinkers of the day.

It was this simple touch of kinship, this simple communion of father and child, which was sweet and tender and true.

The attitude of the followers toward their chief is in time of peace one of kinship feeling or one of indifference.

He knew that this girl belonged to a class from which his descent and education had left him far apart, a class of which he knew nothing, and with whom he could claim no kinship.

The more we bring a true education within reach of the workers the more will there arise that sense of real kinship which only equality of education can adequately guarantee.

For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, and even after death us do part, all men are held together by ties of spiritual kinship, sons of one eternal Friend.

No doubt; and for those who know the meaning of these emblems there is a feeling of kinship with those men, long since fallen into dust, who gathered about such an altar.

He was strange to Seth, but he recognized a something of the kinship of country in his face and manner.

If you did not cry over Racine's Berenice, and feel it to be the most terrible of tragedies, there is no kinship in our souls; we shall never get on together, and had better break off at once.

There is a close kinship between that statue of Balzac and this statue of which I am to tell you.

Or, again, the deed of horror may be done, but done in ignorance, and the tie of kinship or friendship be discovered afterwards.

They can never develop at an even pace, and the fact of kinship scarcely helps matters where the temperaments and the conditions are so widely dissimilar.

In this noble work she came to realize how many other hearts besides her own carried a burden, and to feel a kinship of sorrow with them.

And on the other hand, some people were predicting that the lines of kinship would become narrower and sterner.

In these best moods of ours, we live and think beyond our normal powers and even come to a distant kinship with men far greater than ourselves.

I do not think many animals show their kinship to us by exhibiting the trait I am here discussing.

With the introduction of the system of male kinship came also the practice of transferring a woman from her own clan to that of her husband.

"Kentucky's convictions are with the Union; her kinship and sympathies with the South," said a deep-voiced lawyer.

It is seen, therefore, that the test has a close kinship with the test of memory for sentences.

However, I will do what I can for you, for the sake of my mother's sister and of our kinship.

All races have now become mixed, we are told, and kinship in a group has ceased to be a fact.

A study of twelve hundred persons who belonged to the family by kinship or marriage was made carefully, with the following findings.

In each succeeding discussion, his infectious smile grew rarer and the drawn brow, that bore close kinship to a frown, more habitual.

If he knows of the physical fact, he does not use it politically, for blood kinship as a political force is late, not early, and the early tie was dependent upon quite other circumstances.

At the beginning, it was clearly not connected with blood kinship and descent; it was as clearly not connected with any class system of marriage.

It may have been that the proof of kinship, as demonstrated by these confronting faces, was finding its way into their hearts.

Some men, perhaps even most, are able to fulfil their vocation without a surrender of the joys of kinship.