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Clanship

Clanship \Clan"ship\, n. A state of being united together as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.

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clanship

n. The state of being united together, as if in a clan; an association under a chieftain.

Usage examples of "clanship".

Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and--let us add--dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen.

And all the deeply rooted clanship in him, the family feeling and essential clinging to his own flesh and blood which had been so strong in old Jolyon was so strong in all the Forsytes--felt outraged, cut, and torn by his boy's lonely passing.

Thus Nyren had returned to the clanship of his fathers, had drawn around him those of kin blood.