[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The relation of kinsmen; kinship. Also fig.
1842. Mrs. Gore, in Tait’s Mag., IX. 563/1. Very little, alas! did I surmise your kinsmanship with a man so disgraced in the eyes of the world.
1874. Sayce, Compar. Philol. v. 178. The surest differentia of linguistic kinsmanship.
