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Blood relation   /bləd rilˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Blood relation

noun
1.
One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another.  Synonyms: blood relative, cognate, sib.






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"Blood relation" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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,

... 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

... 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



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



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