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kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] n 1. blood relationship 2. the state of having common characteristics or a common origin kinship family relationship or other close tie or relationship. See also: Relationship
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kinship noun 1. relationship, kin, family ties, consanguinity, ties of blood, blood relationship the ties of kinship 2. similarity, relationship, association, bearing, connection, alliance, correspondence, affinity She evidently felt a sense of kinship with the woman. Translations kinship [ˈkɪnʃɪp] n → parenté f to feel a kinship with sb → se sentir des affinités avec qn, ressentir des affinités avec qn a deep kinship with sb → de profondes affinités avec qn to feel a deep kinship with sb → se sentir de profondes affinités avec qn, ressentir de profondes affinités avec qn He felt a deep kinship with the other students → Il se sentait de profondes affinités avec les autres étudiants., Il ressentait de profondes affinités avec les autres étudiants. kinship How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He lounged along, smoking a large cigar, keen-eyed and observant, laying up for himself a store of impressions, unconsciously irritated at every step by a sense of ostracism, of being in some indefinable manner without kinship and wholly apart from this world, in which it seemed natural now that he should find some place. Or, again, the deed of horror may be done, but done in ignorance, and the tie of kinship or friendship be discovered afterwards. In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life. |
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