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kinless

kinless adjective: without kin; familyless.

Adjective

kinless (not comparable)

  1. Without kin; familyless.
    • And old friendships and all connexions forgotten, when you go to seek an office from him! “A kinless loon,” as the Scotch said of Cromwell’s new judges, — intent on mere indifferent fair-play!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Origin of kinless

From kin + -less.

Words formed from kinless

Questions about kinless

What does kinless mean?
Kinless means without kin; familyless.
What part of speech is kinless?
Kinless is an adjective.

Words near kinless in the dictionary

  1. kinky
  2. kinky hair disease
  3. Kinlaw
  4. Kinlaws
  5. Kinleith
  6. kinless
  7. kinlessness
  8. Kinlet
  9. Kinley
  10. Kinloch
  11. Kinlocheil

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