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Kith and Kin
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What does Kith and Kin mean?
noun
- 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.
The kith and kin were there, and the whole respectability of the town besides.
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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.
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!
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."