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kinsfolk [ˈkınzfəʊk] N

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They were anxious, too, lest the family should fall on evil times at his death: they might lose the fortunate status they then held as the emperor's kinsfolk.
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If this sounds calculating and mercenary, it is surely less so than trying to win the dosh after the kinsfolk have gone.
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Our kinsfolk failed, and our familiar friends failed too.
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He possibly resigned to his kinsfolk some of his other livings, after having, it was said, made scandalous leases of the property that left little to his successors.
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His kinsfolk are artisans, rough around the edges; yet in their fierce parochialism, their defiant eccentricities, the purity of their tongue, they do constitute a kind of aristocracy.
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The governor then presented himself with his family, kinsfolk and distinguished students of the military academy, who had been shut up in the place during the siege.
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Rules and norms for marriage and social behavior among kinsfolk is often reflected in the systems of kinship terminology in the various languages of the world.
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The family and kinsfolk provide a cultural routine that help children learn useful practical skills and enables these societies to provide for itself in the next generation.
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She was led to the pyre crowned in garlands to the hymns of her kinsfolk.
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Most common is the triad of kinsfolk, poor, and travelers.
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