(Anthropology) related by blood.
1 It is the study of words as they are associated, not in actual blood kinship , but in meaning.
2 These local tribes are united by contiguity, and by common local interests, but not necessarily by blood kinship .
3 At the beginning, it was clearly not connected with blood kinship and descent; it was as clearly not connected with any class system of marriage.
4 The sacredness of those relations, and even of blood kinship , is, I fear, not always so clear to the youthful mind as we fondly imagine.
5 1900-1919) I am thy father's brother in blood kinship , and thou my brother's son.
6 'It demonstrated that the natives understood the effect which blood kinship would exercise upon the stamina of a race.
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