close relation

In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.

His political sympathies, however, accorded with those of Atterbury, and brought him into close relation with the Nonjurors.

Metonymy is the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another to which the former bears a known and close relation.

In close relation with the income-tax is the estate duty, with its adjuncts of Legacy and Succession Duties.

But there is another sense, the nerves of which are in close relation with the higher organs of consciousness.