Ties of birth or heredity, esp. those connecting a person to his or her parents or ancestors; family background, lineage, descent; (also more…

Union, bond, or connection through consanguinity or (now chiefly) marriage; kinship; an instance of this. Formerly also: †sexual relationship outside…

The condition of being of the same blood; relationship by descent from a common ancestor; blood-relationship. (Opposed to affinity, i.e…

The relation between persons descended from a common ancestor; kinship, relationship, consanguinity. (Common in 17th cent.; now rare.)

Connection by marriage or descent; relationship, kinship. Obsolete.

= consanguinity, n. 1a. Obsolete.

The quality, condition, or fact of being related by birth or descent; kinship, relationship, consanguinity. Now rare.

Relationship by descent; consanguinity.

Relationship by birth; consanguinity; (also) an instance of this. Also figurative and in extended use.