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Definition of Relative-in-law
1. Noun. A relative by marriage.
Specialized synonyms: Brother-in-law, Daughter-in-law, Father-in-law, Mother-in-law, Sister-in-law, Son-in-law
Generic synonyms: Relation, Relative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Relative-in-law
Literary usage of Relative-in-law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alsea Texts and Myths by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg (1920)
"... "I want (to be) your relative-in-law."— "All right; thou shalt marry her."
Thereupon, indeed, he made her his wife and stayed (there) for a long time. ..."
2. The Todas by William Halse Rivers Rivers (1906)
"... or other relative-in- law, and no reference was made to the fact that they
would be of the same clan. This makes it probable that there is no real ..."
3. The Todas by William Halse Rivers Rivers (1906)
"... or other relative-in- law, and no reference was made to the fact that they
would be of the same clan. This makes it probable that there is no real ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"In reading his will one thinks no expectant relative, relative-in-law, friend,
or servant could have been disappointed, though that is, after all, ..."
5. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"... awaiting her arrival and gazing at the panorama of Boston Bay and the intervening
hills, when an old lady, a relative-in-law of "Cousin Melissa," stole ..."
6. Women Wanted: The Story Written in Blood Red Letters on the Horizon of the by Mabel Potter Daggett (1918)
"I must clear myself of the charge of even a German relative-in-law. I must be
able to tell accurately, say, how many blocks intervene between the Baptist ..."
7. Thomas Holme, 1624-1695: Surveyor General of Pennsylvania by Irma Corcoran (1992)
"Another prompt applicant was Thomas Holme's probable relative-in-law, James Croft,
who had arrived on the Society from Bristol sometime near the end of the ..."
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