grand-niecen.
/ˈɡran(d)niːs/, U.S. /ˈɡræn(d)ˌnis/ The daughter of a nephew or niece; a great-niece.In North American use grand-niece is approximately as common as (and was formerly slightly commoner than) great-niece (which is usual in British use); grand-niece is much more common in Irish English than in most other varieties.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > nephew or niece > [noun] > niece > daughter of one's nephew or niece
forth-nifta1325
proniece1542
pronept1543
grand-niece1671
1671 tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Managem. Cardinal Mazarine I. iii. 487 A Marriage was concluded between Don Maffeo Barbarine, at that time Abbot, and a Grand Neece of his Holiness [It. una Pronepote del Pontefice].
1758 Crit. Rev. Feb. 123 She felt for the affront offer'd to her family in the person of her grand-niece.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. ii. 27 The colonel..requested his grand-niece to accept of his hospitality.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage xliv Lord Baddington the fourth had not deemed his grand-nieces worthy of a thought..The grand-niece-in-law had hitherto pertinaciously refused to hold any intercourse with Lord Baddington's widow.
1910 Pop. Mech. Nov. 621/1 The necessity of daily drives in the fresh air for his grand niece, to hasten her recovery from a severe illness, was the incentive to the invention.
1993 R. Sawyer We are but Women iii. 66 Grace Gifford, who married Joseph Plunkett on the eve of his execution, was the grand-niece of the painter Sir Frederick Burton.
2001 D. Rhodes Don't tell me Truth about Love 5 She..wished he was her great uncle, and she his favourite grandniece of four who was allowed to clamber upon his knee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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