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Word: Cousinage
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English; earliest use found in The Midland Prose Psalter. From Anglo-Norman cosinage, cusinage, cusingnage, Anglo-Norman and Middle French cousinage, Middle French cousignage (French cousinage) affinity, relatedness, kinship, consanguinity, relatives collectively, in Anglo-Norman also a right to land based on one's status as next of kin from cosin, cousin + -age
The state, condition, or fact of being a cousin; kinship, consanguinity.
In extended and figurative use: affinity, similarity, relatedness. Compare "cousin". rare after 16th century.
A body of cousins or relatives; an extended family group.
A right to land based on one's status as next of kin. Chiefly in "writ of cosinage" (occasionally also "writ of cousinage"): an action by a party based on the seisin of a person to whom that party is next of kin, for the recovery of land of which that party had been dispossessed. Compare "cousin".
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