connascence

In Mrs Craigie I take always an especial interest. She, and dramatist, and I, as dramatic critic, saw the light simultaneously; and our connascence has insired me with a sentimental wish that she should do great things.

No: had not Esther been involved in the edict against the Jews, by her connascence and her religious profession, Mordecai might have pleaded in vain for her perilous interference.

By turns, and occasionally as it were by spontaneous connascence, were reflected on her speaking countenance, as on the clear and smooth surface of a bright mirror, the quick intelligence of a clever woman and the touching simplicity of an unsophisticated child, the vigorous energy of a heroine and the fascinating playfulness of a little fairy, the depth of mind that can penetrate and analyse everything and the inquisitiveness of heart to which all sensations are novel and interesting.

The construct of inheritance–although wildly popular in most object-oriented shops—may sometimes introduce raging connascence.