consanguinity

Noun

Meaning

The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cognation blood kinship association brotherhood alliance kindred family relationship blood pact sisterhood race relative connection relation
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Antonyms

affinity alliance connexion relationship malice adjacency
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Hypernyms

relationship kinship family relationship

Related terms

consanguineous consanguinuity

Examples

When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity. Samuel Laman Blanchard

Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity. Miguel de Cervantes

[E]lections to the supreme power having upon some occasions produced the most destructive contentions, many states would take refuge from a return of the same calamities, in a rule of succession; and no rule presents itself so obvious, certain, and intelligible, as consanguinity of birth. William Paley

The level of education and age of marriage were found to be significantly correlated with consanguinity, with lower levels of education and younger age of marriage influencing higher bloodline marriage rates. Source: Internet

"there can be no matrimony between the sects of Gehlawat and Kadiyan as they have a "brotherhood" akin to consanguinity." Source: Internet

Of the practicing regions, Middle Eastern and northern Africa territories show the greatest frequencies of consanguinity. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

consanguineous marriages consanguineous mating consanguineously consanguinous consanguinously consanguinuity