sororal , also: sororial

Talk to them of obligation and sororal affiliation.

I was not in the proper frame of mind for a lesson in sororal protocol, being more concerned with the current situation.

Philip's fourth and final wife was his sororal niece, Anna of Austria.

The sororal organization is the oldest civic organization in San Antonio.

Think of it not just as fledgling sport, but somewhere between more active book club and more sororal gym.

Polygyny, especially sororal polygyny, is the basis of Wari' family structure.

Although monogamy was the norm, marriage variants such as sororal polygamy and polyandry were present.

Co-wives are often sisters (see sororal polygyny).

The Urarina customarily practice brideservice, uxorilocal patterns of post-nuptial residence, and sororal polygyny.

Upon his death in 1038, he was succeeded by his sororal nephew Peter Urseolo, a Venetian noble.

Female-female dizygotic twins (sometimes called "sororal twins")

The poignance and dithery charm in her portrayal of Virginia are perfectly calibrated, as unhappiness and sororal envy evolve into compassion.

Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, is Woosnam's sororal grandniece.

This history of cruel fate and sororal perfidy forms the first of the two monologues performed by Ms. Manahan that compose "Sisters."

The same holds true for brothers and sisters from the same parents, meaning that fraternal and/or sororal twins are simply siblings who happen to be the same age.

But there was nothing sororal about those ladies, awesome in their authority, majestic in their willingness to martyr themselves on the altar of their offspring's upward mobility.

Juan responded fullchantedly to her sororal sonority, imitating himself capitally with his bubbleblown in his patapet and his chalished drink now well in hand.

Such claims of sororal polygyny were notably popularized by Eminescu, who once described Urechia as a "poor fellow who has two keep two sisters as his wives."

For in matrilineal societies where kinship is traced through women on the mother's side of the family, the mother's brother does not usually behave in this fashion towards his sororal nephew.

Then, thinking of Suzy, he added, "Fate has sought to compensate for the shortcomings of my parents in the sister production department by supplying me with the sweetest, loveliest sororal surrogates."

Once they professed final vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience (the first and last were open to sororal interpretation), choir nuns' chief responsibility was to sing the daily round of chapel services.

A high pathogen load also decreases the relative importance of sororal polygyny which may be because it becomes increasingly important to have genetic variability in the offspring (See Major histocompatibility complex and sexual selection).

When the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill case broke a few years ago, and many men wondered what all the ruckus was about, women responded with the sororal battle cry: You just don't get it, do you?

Dr. McClintock has the sort of good-humored, sororal and charismatic personality that draws people to her; when her students were asked how they liked working with her, suffice it to say that they gushed.

The Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) is a sororal association dedicated to perpetuating the memory of Texas pioneer families and soldiers of the Republic of Texas.