1796, Scotish Songs In Two Volumes[1], →OL, page 164:
And ſyne ſhe kiſſd his bluidy cheik And fyne his bluidy chin: O better I loe my Gill Morice Than a' my kith and kin! "Away, away, ze ill woman, And an il deith mait ze dee: Gin I had kend he'd bin zour ſon, He'd neir bin flain for mee."
1800, Silverpen, The Little Museum Keepers[2], Willam and Robert Chambers, →OL, page 119:
"What's that to me, boy?" she interrupted with a stern, hard manner, which Joe hitherto had had no idea she could assume. "Didn't her kith and kin rob thee, beat thee, starve thee, and force thee to run away ? Is she not the child of her mother, and what could I do with one trained in the wickedness of vagrant ways?"
1868, Caroline Sheridan Norton, Old Sir Douglas[3], →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 161:
It well may be because I have been so lonelv, but to mv thinking there can be no love, no tie, like love and tie of kith and kin.
1869, Lucy Aikin, Evenings at home [by J. Aikin and A.L. Barbauld] in words of one syllable by Mary Godolphin[4], page 40:
Yet, with all this, in two or three days he grew dull, and would fain mix with his kith and kin once more.
1875, Bertha De Jongh, Loving And Loth. A Novel[5], →OCLC, page 84:
No—impossible! It was easier to appeal to kith and kin, after all, than to a stranger like this.
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.
1893, Georg Ebers, Margery. (Gred): A Tale of Old Nuremberg[6], Appleton, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:
Also he held me dear as the widowed maid to whom his friend was to have been wed, and he could never forgive himself if fresh woe came upon me through him or his kith and kin.
1904, Henry Roe, Memoir of The Rev. Archibald Campbell Scarth[7], Stevens & Price, printers, →OCLC, →OL, page 16:
From that time for many years I was regarded as an outcast and renegade iby my own kith and kin, as much so as if I had renounced Christianity altogether and become a Mohammedan or a Hindoo.
1905, Hermann Gollancz, Russia And The Alien Question[8], Wertheimer, Lea, →OCLC, →OL, page 5:
Brothers and sisters, I am not speaking, I assure you, simply from a thought for our own kith and kin, for the Jewish people residing in Russia.
1905, Martha Finley, Elsie and Her Namesakes[9], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:
Grace made a lovely bride, surrounded by all her own and Harold's kith and kin.
Surely all those abominable rebels must see that their obstinacy and treachery redounds upon their own kith and kin.
1946, Nell McNish Gambill, The Kith And Kin Of Captain James Leeper And Susan Drake, His Wife[11], →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL:
In searching for material to build this book around the family of Captain James Leeper and Susan Drake, the first couple married in old Fort Nashborough, 1780, and their kith and kin, records were found also of other families allied to other descendants of these early settlers in Nashville, Tennessee, than the writer’s posterity, for whom this book was primarily intended. These records have been included.
Arabic: آل(ar)(ʔāl)(this may or may not include friends; if friends to be specifically added then use "الصحب والآل". Note this is the old Arabic equivalence to Kith and Kin, for modern formal usage "الأصدقاء والأقارب" is typically used),
Armenian: ազգուտակ(hy)(azgutak)(does not include friends)
