akin
Of persons, of the same kin; related by blood.
Adjective
- Of persons, of the same kin; related by blood.
- [W]e are too near a kin to lye together, tho' vve may Lodge near one another; […] - 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam...
- The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea. - 1897, Joseph Conrad, The Children of the Sea: A Tale of...
- Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
- Is not then Fruition near akin to Love? - 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27
- She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue. - 1710 March 19 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, March 9, 1709–1710. To the Spectator, &c..”, in The Spectator,...
- Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration. - 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXIX, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […],...
Origin
From a corruption of of kin, from Middle English of kyn (“related, of kin”), equivalent to a- + kin (1550s). Compare Old English cyn, cynn (“akin, proper, suitable”, adj.).
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- To relate or compare; to liken.
- I like to akin the P-Diddy case to Gen-Z's version of the O.J. Simpson trial.