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KIN, n. L. genus Gr. connected with L. gigno, geno.

1. Relation, properly by consanguinity or blood,but perhaps sometimes used for relation by affinity or marriage.

This man is of kin to me.

2. Relatives kindred persons of the same race.

--The father, mother and the kin beside.

3. A relation a relative.
4. The same generical class a thing related.

And the ear-deafening voice of th' oracle,

Kin to Jove's thunder.

5. As a termination, kin is used as a diminutive, denoting small, from the sense of child as in manikin, a little man.

KIN, a. Of the same nature kindred congenial.

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Entry for 'Kin'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​k/kin.html.
 
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