Definition of "cousinhood" []

• Relationship as of cousins (noun)
• The state or quality of being a cousin (noun)
• Cousins, or persons related by blood, collectively (noun)

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• "Let's have two variables named C ( "cousinhood") and R ( "generations removed")."
• "According to popular mythology, World War I broke out largely because of a decadent, inbred cousinhood that ruled over the Old World's dynastic empires in a way that was undemocratic but also competitive, promoting an arms race that their pacific European subjects could not prevent and that could only end in war."
• "One suspects that Ms. Carter skimps on her discussion of Franz Josef because he was only distantly related to the book's "cousinhood.""