'Consanguinity' definitions:
Definition of 'consanguinity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Consanguinity'
From: GCIDE
- Consanguinity \Con`san*guin"i*ty\, n. [L. consanguinitas: cf. F. consanguintit['e].] The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. [1913 Webster]
- Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'consanguinity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- agnation,
- alliance,
- ancestry,
- apparentation,
- birth,
- blood,
- blood relationship,
- bloodline,
- branch,
- breed,
- brotherhood,
- brothership,
- cognation,
- common ancestry,
- common descent,
- common source,
- common stock,
- connection,
- cousinhood,
- cousinship,
- derivation,
- descent,
- direct line,
- distaff side,
- enation,
- extraction,
- family,
- family relationship,
- fatherhood,
- female line,
- filiation,
- fraternity,
- house,
- kindred,
- kinship,
- line,
- line of descent,
- lineage,
- male line,
- maternity,
- matrilineage,
- matriliny,
- matrisib,
- matrocliny,
- motherhood,
- paternity,
- patrilineage,
- patriliny,
- patrisib,
- patrocliny,
- phylum,
- propinquity,
- race,
- relation,
- relationship,
- seed,
- sept,
- sibship,
- side,
- sisterhood,
- sistership,
- spear side,
- spindle side,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- succession,
- sword side,
- ties of blood