Relationship by marriage (as between a husband
and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood
relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or
relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or
between.
Kinship generally; close agreement; relation;
conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of
colors, or of languages.
Companionship; acquaintance.
That attraction which takes
place, at an insensible distance, between the heterogeneous particles of
bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds; chemism; chemical or
elective affinity or attraction.
A relation between species
or highe(?) groups dependent on resemblance in the whole plan of structure,
and indicating community of origin.
A superior spiritual
relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp.
persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such
psychical or spiritual attraction.
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