Word info

kith and kin

Noun

Meaning

kith and kin pl (plural only)

Both friends and family.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! Honoré de Balzac

Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists. Robert Mugabe

In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu as his kith and kin. That is probably the reason why Maulana Mahomed Ali, a great Indian but a true Muslim, preferred to be buried in Jerusalem rather than in India. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

But seriously folks, on this 50th Anniversary of our Republican status, it is hoped that our Disciplined Forces will not succumb to the blandishments of the PNC, which are based on what former PNC leader Desmond Hoyte called “kith and kin ties”. Source: Internet

In Bhagavad Gita when Arjuna hesitates to kill his kith and kin the lord reprimands him saying thus "Do you believe that you are the doer of the action. Source: Internet

Sentamu sees himself as part of Britain; Tutu as an arbiter of the interests of Britain's kith and kin here. Source: Internet

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