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Kith and Kin

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What does Kith and Kin mean?

noun

  1. Both friends and family.

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For instance, a disgraced woman, forsaken and spat upon by kith and kin, doses herself and her baby with laudanum.
Jack LondonThe People of the AbyssProject Gutenberg ebook #1688
The kith and kin were there, and the whole respectability of the town besides.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #77
More book examples (3)
She does not live by warring on her kith and kin; she does not of her own accord attempt the conquest of another's property.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887
What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin!
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701
Small tradesmen, laboring men, civil officials of low degrees, etc., have found it profitable to forsake their tenements in the city and move kith and kin into those "arbor colonies."
Bolton HallThree Acres and LibertyProject Gutenberg ebook #4509