Definition of akin

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akin

adjective

(context, of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.

- 1722, w:Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 23,
- :We are too near to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
- 1897, w:Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the "Narcissus", ch. 2,
- :The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all with the brotherhood of the sea.
  1. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
- 1677, w:Theophilus Gale, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27,
- :Is not then Fruition near to Love?
- 1710, anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator, vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39,
- :She told me that she hoped my Face was not to my Tongue.
- 1814, w:Jane Austen, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, ch. 44,
- :Such sensations, however, were too near to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- 1837, w:Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, ch. 39,
- :Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, to veneration.
- 1910, w:Zane Grey, Zane Grey, "Old Well-Well," Success (July),
- :Something to a smile shone on his face.

Translations: Etymology: Prefix a- (for of) + kin.

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