kinswoman
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The older woman kneels in front of Mary, who looks down tenderly and embraces her kinswoman, who is bearing St. John the Baptist.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2017
Later she refused to call her "daughter" in company, instead describing her as a "kinswoman" or "cousin".
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2015
Mrs. Payne felt it a form of treachery when Cousin Francis died, leaving not a cent to his aged kinswoman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of this remarkable character Florence L. Dorsey, a kinswoman, has written a remarkable biography.
From Time Magazine Archive
“When Elizabeth was with child, she visited her kinswoman Mary, who carried Christ in her womb. And she was not turned away from the Lord,” I say in a low and modest voice.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Beauteous as herself are her kinswomen, the two sisters of King George II of Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ajima meant something like “Auntie”; it was a term of great affection, reserved only for older kinswomen.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
So we have grown up in the fancy that these kinswomen be something stern and redoubtable ladies.
From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Evelyn Everett-Green
This man was eventually located and he led his kinswomen off happy and hopeful once more.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball
Moreover, Moses had married a woman of Midian, and might have been supposed to have some regard for her kinswomen.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
