cousinhood , also: cousinship

"Then I have a few months of cousinhood if not unclehood."

Their constitutional powers counted for almost as little as their cousinhood.

The Dravidian kinship system involves selective "cousinhood."

It was cousinhood, and stepcousinhood at that.

That was a stumper for someone who is struggling with the difference between grandmas and grandpas and has not ventured out into the high meadows of cousinhood.

Only creatures utterly foreign, utterly remote from the most distant cousinhood to man, only the termite, the tarantula, and the scorpion indifferently make it their home.

The cousinhood of close-knit European families included the Crown Prince of Denmark with his new fiancee, and the Infanta Elena of Spain, whose marriage in March set off a round of royal celebrations.

He phoned this word-smooth cousin, saying, "Brian, I am in a pickle, don't ask why, but if the bonds of cousinhood mean anything to you I beg you to write me a few statesmanlike sentences a President might speak to Gorbachev, and give them to me, so I can polish them."

Her elegance and fluency in French captured their hearts, and at a glittering dinner at Versailles she seemed to quite mesmerize President de Gaulle, a man not easy to mesmerize, as well as several hundred exuberant French people named Bouvier, all of them apparently claiming some sort of cousinhood.