consanguine
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At the very least, he is the Ziegfeld of the U.S. branch of Tibetan Buddhism and its consanguine, quixotic movement to liberate Lhasa from Beijing's rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
But more commonly the two existed together, intimate, clinging, consanguine and inseparable.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
In this stage, the generic classification in strata of different ages belonging to the so-called consanguine family runs parallel for a while with the gentile order....
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
As intermarriage in the gens was prohibited, it withdrew its members from the evils of consanguine marriages, and thus tended to increase the vigor of the stock.
From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.
They inherited first together with the other consanguine relatives of the mother, later on perhaps in preference to the others.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
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The Best of Enemies
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