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kith [kɪθ] n one's friends and acquaintances (esp in the phrase kith and kin) [Old English cȳthth, from cūth; see uncouth] Kith persons who are known and familiar collectively, 1325; acquaintances, 1825; kith and kin:‘friends and relations’—Wilkes. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel" afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers --all kith and kin to noble Benjamin --this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other. Nevertheless, she felt a little resentment that Anne Shirley, who was, after all, merely an adopted orphan, without kith or kin, should refuse her brother -- one of the Avonlea Andrews. There's oodles of it, and oodles of it, and, without kith or kin, I have so little time longer to live that I shall not need it much or much of it. |
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