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Blood relation

noun

One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another. Synonyms: blood relative, cognate, sib.

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... adoption, shipmate. She is no blood relation to me, though I love her as dearly as any ...

— Sustained honor - The Age of Liberty Established • John R. Musick,

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... begun in the Spring. Early in June was chronicled the arrival of "a woman calling herself Cousin Elmira, blood relation of my Rebecca. Was not aware my Rebecca had a blood relation named Elmira, but there is much in the world that ...

— At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern • Myrtle Reed

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... reasoner, an able-preacher, but repeats himself often, and gets long-winded on Sunday nights; is highly enamelled, touchy, and imperial; is lofty in tone, cream laid and double thick in manner; is full of metal, and there is a stately mystery about him, as if he were a blood relation of the Great Mokanna; he is nearly infallible, and would make a good Pope; he is strongly combative, and would be a vigorous bruiser in stormy ecclesiastical circles. We fancy no parson in Preston has had more officials ...

— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus

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Words linked to "Blood relation" : blood relative, relative, relation