consanguinity

Example Sentences

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The author has a special and almost Darwinian interest in consanguinity, in the barbed things that are passed on in the blood of people and of horses, like curses, from generation to generation.

From New York Times

Every moment is infused with what the poet Hart Crane called “infinite consanguinity,” the mysterious bond that links us with one another and that only an alert and sensitive artistic imagination can make visible.

From New York Times

To select a book or poem from the ether for chat was best handled in print, though we could revisit favorites for euphoric consanguinity.

From The New Yorker

In subject-matter, certainly; but also there is also a consanguinity in technique.

From The Guardian

For them, distance is the degree of consanguinity: two -adics are close by virtue of having a recent common ancestor in their family tree.

From Scientific American