a kin

See also: a-kin, akin, akın, and Akın

English

Adjective

a kin (comparative more a kin, superlative most a kin)

1. Obsolete form of akin.
   • 1642, John Milton, An apology against a pamphlet call’d A modest confutation of the animadversions upon the remonstrant against Smectymnuus‎^[1], London: John Rothwell, page 7:

     […] I conceit him to be neere a kin to him who set forth a Passion Sermon with a formall Dedicatory in great letters to our Saviour.

   • 1724, [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunate Mistress; […], London: […] E. Applebee, […], published 1740, →OCLC, page 181:

     […] and though there was not the leaſt Hint in all this from what may be called Religion or Conſcience, and far from any thing of Repentance or any thing that was a kin to it, eſpecially at firſt; […]

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:

     Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny’s soliloquies.