Definition of Blood kinship

1. Noun. (anthropology) related by blood.

Exact synonyms: Cognation, Consanguinity
Category relationships: Anthropology
Generic synonyms: Family Relationship, Kinship, Relationship
Antonyms: Affinity
Derivative terms: Consanguine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Kinship

blood glucose meter
blood glucose monitoring
blood glucose self-monitoring
blood group
blood group antigen
blood group incompatibility
blood group substance
blood grouping
blood grouping and crossmatching
blood groups
blood haemopathies
blood heat
blood is thicker than water
blood island
blood islet
blood kinship (current term)
blood knot
blood knots
blood libel
blood libels
blood lily
blood line
blood lust
blood lymph
blood meal
blood mole
blood money
blood motes
blood orange
blood pH

Literary usage of Blood kinship

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

1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"BLOOD-KINSHIP. (Vol. xviii. ... a :eremony engendering the relation of blood-kinship between a nan and a woman, married or not, and giving to the former the ..."

2. Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme (1908)
"shows a constant tendency to substitute blood kinship for the association with natural objects: first, blood kinship with the mother, then with the mother ..."

3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1908)
"155; Helms v. Elliott, 89 Tenn. 446, 14 SW 930, 10 LRA 535. The idea of blood kinship is sharply accentuated by section 2911 of the same statute. ..."

4. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1906)
"There is probably no known group of human beings simple family in which no blood-kinship is recognised outside of the simple group of parents and offspring; ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1901)
"As the limits of society extended, the primitive conception of blood-kinship described above would naturally grow weaker ; that of near kinship in our sense ..."

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