noun
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Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption
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Relation or connection by nature or character
Examples of kinship in a Sentence
Vara felt a kinship with him after freeing him from the catacombs.
However, I do feel a kinship to this Elizabeth woman.
Powell sets forth the laws of real and artificial kinship among the North American tribes, as well as tribal organization and government, the formation of confederacies, and the intricate rules of artificial kinship by which rank and courtesy were established.
He felt a certain kinship with the irrepressible fellow.
The black Kerry breed and the black or brown Scotch cattle are also more or less nearly related; and a similar kinship is claimed for the Siemental cattle of Switzerland, although their colour is white and fawn.
The compound is headed by the oldest male inhabitant, irrespective of his kinship affiliation with the other residents of the group.
Amber felt a particular kinship to McLean, the band member often dubbed the " bad boy " of the group.
Like Neal Morris she claimed kinship with Jesse James.
Homogeny, in contrast, the " special homology " of Owen, is the supreme test of kinship or of hereditary relationship, and thus the basis of all sound reasoning in phylogeny.
But in addition, among the peers to be assassinated were included many Roman Catholics and some lords nearly connected in kinship or friendship with the plotters themselves.
Our bonds of kinship make some claims on us, bonds of kinship make some claims on us, bonds that I pray will always remain strong.
In many of these fur-trade enterprises, kinship ties proved far more enduring than company loyalties.
Attempts to create kinship across Europe take diverse forms, from transnational cultural projects to efforts to control populations by redrawing borders.
Damaged or different people drawn to find spiritual kinship among oppressed people perhaps?
America & Britain have a proud kinship we're always being told by the leaders of both countries.
As a small-town boy yourself what kind of kinship did you feel with Clark Kent?
Despite this, considerable indirect evidence suggests that biological kinship plays an important role in altruistic behavior.
Many of these symbolism of the Chinese Pakua thus find close kinship with the Middle East, specially Hebrew culture.
Little wore needs to be said about this clan's strong contribution to Scottish politics and their strong kinship within the clan.
May we be bold in bringing to fruition the golden dreams of human kinship and justice.
Jesus quickly makes his identity known in a way that shows there are ties that are stronger than blood kinship.
Feature analysis has been extremely important in the analysis of kinship terminology.
In Raymond of Sabunde's form of moral argument - there must be a God to reward and punish, if human life is not to be " vain " - we see the kinship of that argument to the argument from design.
These traditions of migration and kinship are in themselves entirely credible, but the detailed accounts of the ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as given in Genesis, are inherently doubtful as regards both the internal conditions, which the (late) chronological scheme ascribes to the first half of the second millennium B.C., and the general circumstances of the life of these strangers in a foreign land.
The skull was small, with proportionately minute brain; and the arched back, strong lumbar vertebrae, long and powerful tail, and comparatively feeble fore-quarters all proclaim kinship with the primitive creodont Carnivora (see Creodonta), from which Phenacodus and its allies, and through them the more typical Ungulata, are probably derived.
In 1865 he published Primitive Marriage, in which, arguing from the prevalence of the symbolical form of capture in the marriage ceremonies of primitive races, he developed an intelligible picture of the growth of the marriage relation and of systems of kinship (see Family) according to natural laws.
Personal protection and revenge, oaths, marriage, wardship, succession, supervision over settlement, and good behaviour, are regulated by the law of kinship. A man's actions are considered not as exertions of his individual will, but as acts of the kindred, and all the fellows of the maegth are held responsible for them.
When a confederacy was organized under a council, intermarriage between tribes sometimes occurred; an artificial kinship thus arose, in which event the council established the rank of the tribes as elder and younger brother, grandfather, father and sons, rendering the relationship and its vocabulary most intricate, but necessary in a social system in which age was the predominant consideration and etiquette most exacting.
The conclusion is that the sum of homogenous parts, which may be similar or dissimilar in external form according to their similarity or diversity of function, and the recognition of former similarities of adaptation (see below) are the true bases for the critical determination of kinship and phylogeny.
Localism maintains the traditional ties of blood and kinship but undermines modern, universalist democratic ideals.
There's a soft and supple character that finishes with a silky texture and creates a sense of kinship with the Rhône's Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
In 2002, about 405,000 children were placed in court-appointed kinship care.
Many of these kinship caregivers are grandparents or elderly aunts and uncles.
Kinship caregivers offer family support and stability, and more frequent contact with parents or legal guardians, and siblings.
Nevertheless, kinship caregivers, especially grandparents, face a number of challenges.
Most of the formal and informal kinship caregivers experience economic hardship as they take in one or more of their relative's children.
They also may not have adequate medical insurance; however, Medicaid often will cover the foster child in a formal kinship arrangement.
About 40 percent of the 127,000 adoptions in 2000 and 2001 were primarily private agency, kinship, or tribal adoptions.
However, in 1992, for example, stepparent adoptions (a form of kinship adoption) alone accounted for 42 percent of all adoptions.
While these data are non-specific, it is safe to say that a significant number of the stepchildren were neither kinship nor stepparent adoptions.
Many older teens feel a certain kinship with evil skull tattoos for their rebellious qualities.
In 1930, the founders changed the name to Citizen Watch Company because the word citizen created a kinship or citizenship among people all over the world.
It took me back to when we were kids, in Amherst and this knowing kind of trust and kinship we'd shared.
In fact, while Robertson Smith (in Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, as well as his Religion of the Semites, followed by Stade and Benzinger) strongly advocated the view that clear traces of totemism can be found in early Israel, later writers, such as Marti, Gesch.
And he did not realize the importance of the kinship between Christian doctrine and Hellenistic syncretism, which helped to promote the reception of Christianity.
A reprint of Primitive Marriage, with "Kinship in Ancient Greece" and some other essays not previously published, appeared in 1876, under the title of Studies in Ancient History.
Genealogical studies had become necessary through Omar's system of assigning state pensions to certain classes of persons according to their kinship with the Prophet, or their deserts during his lifetime.
In all parts of the western hemisphere society was organized on cognate kinship, real or artificial, the unit being the clan.
The due performance of funeral rites re-created the blood tie and renewed the kinship of living and dead at the moment when death seemed specially to endanger it by removal of that representative of the household whose special duty it had been to keep up the family sacra.
But if classification is to express relationship, it is impossible to associate in the same order families whose kinship to insects of other orders is nearer than their kinship to each other.