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sibness en · NOUN

Etymology

From sib + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Kinship.
    • […] and bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh, by virtue of the natural sibness between him and you; […] 1821, Ralph Erskine, The Sermons, and Other Practical Works, volume 5, page 414:
    • Sibness to snakes 1926, Hugh MacDiarmid, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle: