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Relationship

noun

A relation between people; ('relationship' is often used where 'relation' would serve, as in 'the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of 'relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness). Synonym: human relationship.

A state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection).

A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries.

(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption. Synonyms: family relationship, kinship.

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"Relationship" Quotes from Famous Books

... Certain excellent people will side with a pronounced wrongdoer, for no apparent cause; not necessarily from a charitable desire to give him another chance. Also, the pleasing Indian characteristic of regard for family relationship, which is so strong, leads to an anxiety to belittle the wrongdoings of anyone who can claim kinship, and this may be carried even to the verge of distortion, or suppression of the truth. Anyhow, the conclusions ...

— India and the Indians • Edward F. Elwin

... of old habit, and of that uneasy and unwelcome responsibility with regard to her which had descended upon him at the time of his father's death. He could not honestly regard himself as an affectionate son; but the filial relationship, even in its most imperfect aspect, has a ...

— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... ways they picked on him. Jimmy reasoned out his own relationship between intelligence and violence. He had yet to learn the psychology of ...

— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

... edifice, the latter pushing and jostling each other and commenting in more or less respectful if excited undertones, but throughout devouring with awe-struck or envious eyes. Great people whom Emily had only known through the frequent mention of their names in newspapers or through their relationship or intimacy with her patrons, came to congratulate her in her role of bride. She seemed to be for hours the centre of a surging, changing crowd, and her one thought was to bear herself with an outward semblance of composure. No one but herself could know that she was saying internally over and ...

— Emily Fox-Seton - Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... that there is an intimate relationship between the stomach and the ear, the saucepan and the crotchet, the mysteries of Mrs. Rorer and the mysteries of Mme. Marchesi. It has even occurred to me that one of the reasons our American composers are so barren in ideas is ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

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