单词 | blood relationship |
释义 | blood relationshipn. Relationship by birth; consanguinity; (also) an instance of this. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ 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 1793 W. Russell Hist. Anc. Europe II. xv. 437 The close connexion between the Tyrians and Carthaginians, marking blood-relationship, is indeed manifested through the scope of their history. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 5 The Blood-relationship of Organisms or Phylogeny. 1910 C. A. Ellwood Sociol. & Mod. Probl. v. 95 It is no inconsiderable social merit of monogamy that it makes blood relationships simple and usually perfectly definite. 1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 166 The marriage was a nullity from the beginning due to an improperly close blood relationship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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