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Consanguineous

adjective
1.
Related by blood.  Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin.






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"Consanguineous" Quotes from Famous Books



... sisterhood, cousinhood[obs3]. race, stock, generation; sept &c. 166; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation. V. be related to &c. adj. claim relationship with &c. n. with. Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... to see the subject as the abolitionists see it. When "Southern Chivalry" and the purity of southern society are spoken of now, it is at once replied, that a large number of the slaves show, by their color, their indisputable claim to white paternity; and that, notwithstanding their near consanguineous relation to the whites, they are still held and treated, in all respects, as slaves. Nor is it forgotten now, when the claims of the South to "hospitality" are pressed, to object, because they are grounded on the unpaid wages of the laborer—on the robbery ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society



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