a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
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(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
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Kinship \Kin"ship\, n. Family relationship.
But they are overwhelmingly Shiite Moslems and, despite the Persian Gulf war, feel kinship with fellow Shiites who make up 55 percent of Iraq's population.
The invitation has great implications because of the close kinship of the Russian and British royal families.
"Because Americans are so free to dream, we feel a special kinship with those who dream of being free.
And the result is that when people in our country think someone is being mistreated or treated unjustly in another country, these are people who still feel that kinship to that country because that is their heritage.
For myself, I have never before been made so constantly aware of the impact of Berg's opera on the construction of Britten's, or the ties of kinship between the characters of both.
But some smaller group members are beginning to chafe at the price of corporate kinship.
How was history, the history of America's house, molded by their dreams? "To occupy this office is to ask those questions and certainly to feel a kinship with those who have gone before," said Bush, the 41st president.
It presumes that life goes on, either here or somewhere, and that you will feel some kinship to us and what was important to us.
In the tightly knit intelligence community, former spies feel a kinship with Bush, who served as the CIA's director for a year in 1976 in the Ford administration.
"At first the sister denied her kinship with Akopyan but later on acknowledged that it was she who had brought Aikaz to the Yerevan hospital and that he really was her brother," Tass said.
"I have traveled extensively, and nothing hit me as hard as when I went to Africa," said the principal, who also is black. "There is a kinship that you feel, there is an openness that you feel.
This special kinship is the kinship of an ancient dream, a recurring dream, the dream of freedom.
This special kinship is the kinship of an ancient dream, a recurring dream, the dream of freedom.
For Mr. Dukakis, the numbers also fit his campaign theme that the federal government "can't do it alone" just as he now reaches out to voters in an appeal that seeks to evoke an idealism and kinship with himself "to get America moving again."