kissing cousin in English

noun
1
a relative known well enough to be given a kiss in greeting.
Uncle Sam's nephews were hardly kissing cousins , and the contrast with the happy family who were the European side was more than marked.
noun
    kissing kin

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1. Today, I am more convinced of inerrancy than at any time in my Christian life, but the charge of Bibliolatry, or at least a near, if not a kissing cousin, is one I fear is hard to rebut.To be more specific, in the actual practices of the Evangelical community in North America, there is an over-commitment to Scripture in a way that is false, irrational, and harmful to the