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Definition of Cousinhood
1. n. The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
Definition of Cousinhood
1. Noun. Relationship as of cousins ¹
2. Noun. The state or quality of being a cousin ¹
3. Noun. Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cousinhood
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cousinhood
Literary usage of Cousinhood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"The custom remains, though the raison d'être has long since ceased ('Commentaries,'
i. 898). cousinhood (The). ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Most of the MP's in the 'cousinhood' can claim a whole series of their fellow
members as ... The families of the' cousinhood' are half our governing class. ..."
3. The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope (1906)
"CHAPTER XIV cousinhood MARY LOWTHER and her cousin had taken their walk together
on Monday evening, and on the next morning she received the following ..."
4. Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians: A Revised Text with Introduction by Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1881)
"It will be seen that the cousinhood of these persons is represented as a ...
If any one of these be re- jected, this cousinhood falls to the ground. ..."
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