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kinsman|ˈkɪnzmən|
Forms: 3–4 cunnes-, kun(n)es- (3–5 kenes-, 5 kennes-, -ys-), 3–5 kinnes(s-, 3–6 kynnes-, 4–5 kines-, 4–7 kinse-, 5–6 kyns(e-, 6– kinsman.
[Early ME. f. cunnes, kinnes, gen. of kin + man.]
A man of one's own kin; a relative by blood (or, loosely, by marriage). (Now chiefly literary.)
[c1052O.E. Chron. (MS. C.) an. 1052 Hit wæs heom mæst eallon lað þat hiᵹ sceoldon f[e]ohtan wið heora aᵹenes cynnes mannum. ]c1200Vices & Virtues 75 Ne ðine breðren..ne ðine kenesmen, ne ðine neihibures. c1200Ormin 7613 Cristess kinness menn þær brohhtenn Crist to kirrke. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 456/3 His freond and is cunnes-men þe gretteste maystres were. a1300Cursor M. 6434 Ietro..was moyses kynnes-man [Gött. kinesman]. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 106 My kennysmen and ancestres yn þe self lawe dwellyd. c1477Caxton Jason 50 That my kinnesmen and frendes be assembled. 1555Eden Decades 2 No..kynseman for kynseman..coulde do more. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 273 Hali, Mahomets nearest kinsman and sonne in lawe. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 31 (Captive) Nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 605 It was no pleasant task to accuse the Queen's kinsman in the Queen's presence. 1865Kingsley Herew. i, He is your mother's kinsman.
fig.1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 80 Moodie and dull melancholly, Kinsman to grim and comfortlesse despaire. 1635Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 148 Dew..being a near kinsman to rain.
Hence ˈkinsmanly a., appropriate to or characteristic of a kinsman.
1838J. Martin Rem. & Serm. vii. 168 True kinsmanly affection to our brethren in Christ. 1885Spectator 31 Jan. 154/2 The claims of New England upon the kinsmanly interest and affection of all travellers from the mother-country. |