Definition of Twinship

1. Noun. The condition of being a twin ¹

2. Noun. (nautical) Either of a pair of ships of exactly the same design ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Twinship

1. close similarity or association [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinship

twinlike
twinling
twinlings
twinnable
twinned
twinner
twinners
twinnie
twinnies
twinning
twinnings
twinnite
twins
twinset
twinsets
twinship (current term)
twinships
twinspot
twinspots
twinter
twinters
twiny
twip
twips
twire
twire-pipe
twireason
twired
twires
twiring

Literary usage of Twinship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Society in the New Reign by George Washburn Smalley, Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1904)
"CHAPTER IX SMARTNESS AT ALTAR AND CLUB Lincolnshire clannishness—twinship and athletic ladies—Society, Jingoism, and the Turk—Madame Novikoff—" Smartness," ..."

2. The Truth about Home Rule: Papers on the Irish Question by George Smyth Baden-Powell, George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1888)
"The twinship " of the two Bills is denounced as " having been for the time ... Therefore, it is added emphatically, that this twinship " exists no longer. ..."

3. Picus who is Also Zeus by James Rendel Harris (1916)
"We cannot, however, at once infer the twinship of Cain and Abel with quite the same confidence of induction. The best way to proceed with the matter will ..."

4. Fraser's Magazine (1873)
"If Accius and Lucilius could not certainly make out the meaning of the twinship, we may be excused for making a guess at it. ..."

5. The Importance of Women in Anglo-Saxon Times: The Cultus of St. Peter and St by George Forrest Browne (1919)
"In thanking the Roman bishops for having called our attention to all this striking evidence of the cultus of a twinship of princedom in St. Peter and St. ..."

6. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene by John William Ballantyne (1904)
"If it were not for the twinship existing in the uterus nei such malformed foetus could be imagined to be capable of even an antenatal existence. ..."

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