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Definition of Half sister
1. Noun. A sister who has only one parent in common with you.
Definition of Half sister
1. Noun. The daughter of one's mother who has a different father, maternal half sister, uterine sister ¹
2. Noun. The daughter of one's father who has a different mother, paternal half sister. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Sister
Literary usage of Half sister
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"... where the person last seised dies without leaving issue, or brother or sister
of the blood of the first purchaser, but a half sister not of such blood, ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Dozier, 12 N. С. 833 (1837), and Lawrence v. Pitt. 40 NC 344 (1854). holding that
such collaterals took in preference to the half-sister. In Armstrong v. ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1866)
"... as to the personalty, the brothers atd half sister took equal shares; but that
the brothers took the real estate, to the exclusion of the half sister. ..."
4. Reminiscences Chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement by Thomas Mozley (1882)
"His.name was public from his childhood, for his very much older half-sister had
made Frank the hero of several then very popular but now forgotten tales. ..."
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