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adj. - Related by blood.

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Usage examples (27)
  • In law, the term consanguine is used in place of agnate.
  • Loudon, Kate, Martha and Rufus are the bards of kith and kin, the troubadours of the consanguine.
  • It is now known that royalty was not handed down by women, even though consanguine marriages strengthened the throne.
  • Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage.
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