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adjective

Kindred adj. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions. "True to the kindred points of heaven and home."

noun

Kindred n.

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. "Like her, of equal kindred to the throne."

Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other. "I think there's no man is secure But the queen's kindred."

Synonyms: Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship; affinity.

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Etymology of 'Kindred'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kindred" Quotes from Famous Books

... a renewal of love and intimacy; to be aware of what I had scarcely felt before in the self-confidence of the position I had won—that it is a sad and lonely thing to be a sojourner in a foreign land, with no natural friends, no kind kindred on whom to rely in case of sickness or misfortune;—and, to consider, how dark and grave a thing must be solitary old age, and perhaps a solitary death-bed, far from the home of one's youth, the friends ...

— Valerie • Frederick Marryat

... of making a valid will when he has (1) a knowledge of his property and of his kindred; (2) memory sufficient to recognize his proper relations to those about him; (3) freedom from delusions affecting his property and his friends; and (4) sufficient physical and mental power to resist undue influence. The fact of a man being subject ...

— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... drive from St. Gedeon if the ice on the lake were in good condition." A sigh disclosed that she still was dreaming of the coming and going in the old parishes at the time of the New Year, the family dinners, the unlooked-for visits of kindred arriving by sleigh from the next village, buried under rugs and furs, behind a horse whom coat was ...

— Maria Chapdelaine - A Tale of the Lake St. John Country • Louis Hemon

... two faults are kindred and in some sense the same. The rich fool stretching himself out to rest on the pile of his possessions, and the poor fool tossing about on the billows of unquiet thought, are at bottom under the influence of the same folly, though their circumstances ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century, is that called The Summoning of Everyman. It represents a typical man compelled to enter upon the long, {27} inevitable journey of death. Kindred and Wealth abandon him, but long-neglected Good-deeds, revived by Knowledge, comes to his aid. At the edge of the grave Everyman is deserted by Beauty, Strength, and the Five Senses, while Good-deeds alone goes with him to the end. Moralities of ...

— An Introduction to Shakespeare • H. N. MacCracken

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