Kinship

[f. KIN¹ + -SHIP. A modern word: not in Johnson, Todd, Webster 1828.] The quality or state of being of kin.

  1.  Relationship by descent; consanguinity.

1833.  Mrs. Browning, Prom. Bound, Poems 1850, I. 141. An awful thing Is kinship joined to friendship.

1868.  Stanley, Westm. Abb., iii. 172. In consideration of her kinship with no less than twelve sovereigns.

1880.  Dixon, Windsor, III. xiii. 119. She was of kinship with the queen.

  2.  fig. Relationship in respect of qualities or character.

1873.  M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma (1876), 239. We see how far it has any kinship with that doctrine of the Godhead of the Eternal Son.

1878.  R. W. Dale, Lect. Preach., iv. 90. Those mysterious instincts which vindicate our kinship to God.

1899.  W. M. Ramsay, in Expositor, Jan., 42. Peter was … among the older apostles … the one with whom Paul felt most kinship in spirit.