| 释义 |
kinless, a.|ˈkɪnlɪs|
[f. kin1 + -less.]
Having no relatives; without kin or kindred.
1720T. Boston Fourfold State (1797) 219 The base things of this world, the kinless things (as the word [ἀγενῆ] imports. 1840Thorpe Anc. Laws I. 79 A man, kinless of paternal relatives. 1882Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 500 Cromwell's kinless judges were the first pure judges in Scotland. 1882Ogilvie Imperial Dict., Kinless loons, a name given by the Scotch to the Judges sent by Cromwell, because they distributed justice solely according to the merits of the cases, being uninfluenced by family or party ties. |