2. Noun. (nautical) Either of a pair of ships of exactly the same design ¹
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Definition of Twinship
1. close similarity or association [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twinship
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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