a kin

comparative more a kin · superlative most a kin

1. obsoleteObsolete form of akin.

   Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny’s soliloquies.

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248

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   […] I conceit him to be neere a kin to him who set forth a Passion Sermon with a formall Dedicatory in great letters to our Saviour.

   1642, John Milton, An apology against a pamphlet call’d A modest confutation of the animadversions upon the remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: John Rothwell, page 7

   […] and though there was not the leaſt Hint in all this from what may be called Religion or Conſcience, and far from any thing of Repentance or any thing that was a kin to it, eſpecially at firſt; […]

   Roxana

   1724, [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunate Mistress; […] [Roxana], London: […] E. Applebee, […], published 1740, →OCLC, page 181