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kinsfolk

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kins·folk  (knzfk)
pl.n.
Variant of kinfolk.

kinsfolk [ˈkɪnzˌfəʊk]
pl n
one's family or relatives

Kinsfolk persons of the same kin; relations by blood, 1450—Wilkes.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.kinsfolkkinsfolk - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
people - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"
house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York"
dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
gens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"
blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

kinsfolk kinfolk
plural noun family, relations, relatives, connections, kin, kindred, kinsmen He honestly liked his kinsfolk.
Translations
kinsfolk [ˈkɪnzfəʊk] NPLfamiliares mpl, parientes mpl
kinsfolk [ˈkɪnzfəʊk] kinfolk [ˈkɪnfəʊk] kinfolks [ˈkɪnfəʊks] (US) npl (= relations) → famille f
Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her → Pauvre Emily. Sa famille devrait venir la voir
kinsfolk
nVerwandtschaft f, → Verwandte(n) pl


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You ought to have stopped at your first acts of charity--acts inspired by sympathy and the love of kinsfolk, rather than have continued to squander your means upon what was unnecessary.
This being so, if perchance anyone of thy kinsfolk should come to see thee when thou art in thine island, thou art not to repel or slight him, but on the contrary to welcome him, entertain him, and make much of him; for in so doing thou wilt be approved of heaven
The children, who had made use of this idea of Tess being taken up by their wealthy kinsfolk (which they imagined the other family to be) as a species of dolorifuge after the death of the horse, began to cry at Tess's reluctance, and teased and reproached her for hesitating.
 
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