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Coinage vs Cosinage - What's the difference?

coinage | cosinage |

As nouns the difference between coinage and cosinage

is that coinage is the process of coining money while cosinage is collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

coinage

English

(wikipedia coinage)

Noun

  • The process of coining money.
  • (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
  • (uncountable) The creation of new words, neologizing.
  • (countable) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.

    • cosinage

    English

    Noun

  • Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
    • (Burrill)
  • (legal) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
    • (Blackstone)
    (Webster 1913)