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kinsfolk [ˈkɪnzfəʊk, Am -foʊk] N

kinsfolk

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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. en.wikipedia.org

If this sounds calculating and mercenary, it is surely less so than trying to win the dosh after the kinsfolk have gone. www.telegraph.co.uk

Most common is the triad of kinsfolk, poor, and travelers. en.wikipedia.org

She was led to the pyre crowned in garlands to the hymns of her kinsfolk. en.wikipedia.org

These fines completely protect the offender (or the kinsfolk thereof) from the vengeance of the injured family. en.wikipedia.org

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. en.wikipedia.org

Our kinsfolk failed, and our familiar friends failed too. www.vanguardngr.com

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. en.wikipedia.org

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. en.wikipedia.org

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. www.telegraph.co.uk

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