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Cognation

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

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Kinship 76% connected

Family relationship.

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Relationship 76% connected

The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

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Consanguinity 92% connected

The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral cons…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Enation 92% connected

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

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Affinity 94% connected

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradist…

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Affinity 94% connected

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradist…

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