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Definition of Second cousin
1. Noun. A child of a first cousin.
Definition of Second cousin
1. Noun. A grandchild of a grandparent's sibling. A grandnephew or grandniece of a grandparent. ¹
2. Noun. A child of a parent's first cousin. ¹
3. Noun. A person who shares common great-grandparents, but grandparents and parents are different. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Second Cousin
Literary usage of Second cousin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1885)
"... husband's second cousin; spinster female second cousin of husband ; husband's
grand-nephew; and spinster grand- niece of husband ; by a married woman, ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1847)
"The male children of second cousins are second-cousin-nephews, and the female
children are second-cousin-nieces to such second cousins; or the same children ..."
3. A Concise Treatise on the Construction of Wills by Francis Vaughan Hawkins, John Sword, Frederick Moore Leonard (1885)
"But a gift to " all the first and second cousins" of a person is construed as
including all cousins within the degree of second cousin, and therefore ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1847)
"The male children of second cousins are second-cousin-nephews, and the female
children are second-cousin-nieces to such second cousins ; or the same ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"In a bequest of the residuary funds to a testator's first and second cousin and
the children of his kinsman G., the legal construction of the words "second ..."
6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1920)
"1850 his second cousin, EMELINE E.* ERSKINE (10, i), b. in May 1819, dsp 26 Sept.
... 1851) her second cousin, ROBERT HULL (6, vi, 1), qv, a. of Erastus and ..."
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