The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cousinship \Cous"in*ship\, n.
The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins;
cousinhood.
--G. Eliot.
Wiktionary
n. the state of being cousins, the relationship of cousins
Usage examples of "cousinship".
Binetti, the latter thinks, and very rightly, that you ought to have given her the refusal of your cousinship.
They had each turned in her own mind, as it appeared from a comparison of ideas, to one of the most comprehensive of those cousinships which form the admiration and terror of the adventurer in Boston society.
As Gardella is only a boatman's daughter, like Binetti, the latter thinks, and very rightly, that you ought to have given her the refusal of your cousinship.
And the true cladist makes no bones about the fact that he thinks of the branching trees or 'cladograms' as family trees, trees of closeness of evolutionary cousinship.