a kin in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more a kin",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most a kin",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "akin"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1642, John Milton, An apology against a pamphlet call’d A modest confutation of the animadversions upon the remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: John Rothwell, page 7",
          "text": "[…] I conceit him to be neere a kin to him who set forth a Passion Sermon with a formall Dedicatory in great letters to our Saviour.",
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        "Obsolete form of akin."
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  "word": "a kin"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more a kin",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most a kin",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "a kin (comparative more a kin, superlative most a kin)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "akin"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1642, John Milton, An apology against a pamphlet call’d A modest confutation of the animadversions upon the remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: John Rothwell, page 7",
          "text": "[…] I conceit him to be neere a kin to him who set forth a Passion Sermon with a formall Dedicatory in great letters to our Saviour.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete form of akin."
      ],
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  "word": "a kin"
}

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"a kin" meaning in English

Adjective