consanguinityn.
/kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnɪti/ 1.
a. The condition of being of the same blood; relationship by descent from a common ancestor; blood-relationship. (Opposed to affinity, i.e. relationship by marriage.)
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > blood-relationship
bloodOE
alliancec1325
consanguinityc1380
cognation1382
allyc1425
sanguinityc1470
kin1548
blood bond1645
kinship1786
blood relationship1793
blood affinity1820
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 95 Whanne a man haþ weddid a womman sibbe to him in degree of consanguinyte or kyn..forboden in holy writt.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. vii. 197 For of consangwinyte The thryd and thyrd þai ware in gre.
1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Pi v Ignoraunt are we not..of thy Consanguinitie with the Troians.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. iii. 23 I haue forgot my father, I know no touch of consanguinitie . View more context for this quotation
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxxvii. 278 Duties of affection and consanguinity.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity V. xi. v. 121 He inhibited the marriage as within the fourth degree of consanguinity.
1882 A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 1 A notation capable of denoting any relationship of consanguinity or affinity.
b. transferred. Of plants: Generic or specific affinity.
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the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > affinity between types
consanguinitya1682
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 46 The nearer consanguinity there is between the cyons and the stock the readier comprehension is made, and the nobler fructification.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > blood-relations
self-blood1605
consanguinity1705
family1798
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Epitome sig. Biijv In writing to any of your affinitie or consanguinitie.]
1705 N. Rowe Biter ii. i What if I did marry..the Pastry-Cook's Daughter, I didn't marry all her Scoundrel Consanguinity, I hope.
3. figurative. Oneness of nature; relationship, affinity.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [noun] > affinity or closeness
cousinagea1398
alliancea1475
affinityc1485
propinquitya1500
societya1513
kindred1528
cognationa1555
affinitive1579
sympathya1586
vicinity1594
affiance1597
contingence1612
contingency1612
congeniality1620
umbilicality1646
consanguinity1651
congeneracy1664
gossipred1674
congenerousness1677
closeness1692
intimacy1720
proximity1762
liaison1809
cousinship1848
affiliation1870
kinship1876
1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 112 The consanguinity of doctrine.
1777 S. Johnson Let. 27 Oct. (1992) III. 90 Such is the consanguinity of our intellects.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. ii. §50. 167 Between the painted window, the prayer-book on which its light falls, and the adjacent monument, there is consanguinity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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