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Consanguinity

//kɒnsaŋˈɡwɪnɪti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A consanguineous or family relationship through parentage or descent. A blood relationship. countable, uncountable

    "1776, United States Declaration of Independence They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity."

  2. 2
    (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood wordnet
  3. 3
    Inbreeding countable, uncountable

    "The Mongrel Virginians was similar to other eugenic family studies in its method and mode of argumentation, but its intensive focus on "race mixing," rather than consanguinity, represents a marked departure from the previous studies."

Etymology

From Middle English consanguinytee, consanguinite, consanguinyte, from Old French consanguinité and Latin cōnsanguinitātem, accusative of Latin cōnsanguinitās, from cōnsanguineus, from Latin com- (“together”) + sanguineus (“of or pertaining to blood”), from Latin sanguis (“blood”).

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