AFFINITY

—(1) Relationship of husband to wife’s blood relations or of wife to husband’s blood relations; distinguished from kinship (consanguinity); certain degrees prevent intermarriage; Prayer Book table of prescribed degrees confirmed for England by Act, 1835; modified by Deceased Wife’s Sister Act, 1907.—(2) Metaphysical term for occult relationship.—(3) Chemical attraction of elements tending to formation of compounds.