[ UK /kˈɪnzmən/ ]
[ US /ˈkɪnzˌmæn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a male relative
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How To Use kinsman In A Sentence

  • Therefore the _goel_, or kinsman-avenger of blood, was not only permitted but enjoined by Moses. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
  • Yea, and I am sorry for Orestes, hapless youth, who is called my kinsman, to think that he should ever return to Argos and behold his sister's wretched marriage. Electra
  • He fled from Rome, hid out with a kinsman of the nobleman from whom he took his famous byname, then went to Naples and Malta, and on, ever on, from there as news of his crime caught up with him.
  • Palamon's appeal to his kinsman for a last word, "if his heart, _his worthy, manly heart_" (an exact and typical example of Fletcher's tragically prosaic and prosaically tragic dash of incurable commonplace), A Study of Shakespeare
  • He escaped, but his kinsman later strangled him to death.
  • 'Then,' said she, 'I am at a marvellous afterdeal [disadvantage], for I have known that the wife hath been received to sue for her husband, the kinsman, friend or servant for them that hath been in the case I now am, and never denied.' Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
  • Now let Pylades take his maiden wife and bear her to his home in Achaea; also he must conduct thy so-called kinsman to the land of Phocis, and there reward him well. Electra
  • His distant kinsman, Mr Enfield, tells him a story of a mysterious Mr Hyde.
  • Father then insisted that you and I spend the night with his kinsman Joscelyn. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • This kinsman of Count Fisiolo's, this other Lord Prestimion, who ' s allowed to go free to terrorize the river! LORD PRESTIMION
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