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ˈkinswoman
Forms: see kinsman.
[f. as kinsman + woman.]
A woman of one's own kin; a female relative. (Now only literary.)
c1400Mandeville xxviii. (1839) 288 Hire othere kynnes⁓wommen [Roxb. sibbe wymmen]. c1460Towneley Myst. xi. 15 My dere kyns Woman. 1586Queen Elizabeth in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 23 Yow have not in the World a more lovinge kinswoman..then my self. 1699Bentley Phal. 88 Autonoe, a Kinswoman of the Tyrant's. 1741–70E. Carter Lett. (1808) 353, I wish,..in the next edition Mr. Richardson would leave out the grievous old-fashioned word kinswoman. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 168 He tried to restore harmony between his kinswomen. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. vii. 54 The murdered prince had married a kinswoman of the Earl. |