"kithfolk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From kith + folk.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860, Philological Society (London), Transactions of the Philological Society, digitized edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2011, page 37",
          "text": "Those that were kith-folk (?) to the great devil,",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1940, Eugenics Pamphlets, Issues 12-59, digital edition, Eugenics Society of Northern California, published 2008, page 46",
          "text": "They seem instinctively to prefer their kith-folk of Russian Karelia.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Albert Silversteen, Human Communication: Theoretical Explorations, page 205",
          "text": "In the beginning there was one adult male and one adult female, with no kinfolk or kithfolk, and no culture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Poul Anderson, Starfarers, page 81",
          "text": "Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Robert Stanek, Guardians & Dragons",
          "text": "After that, he forced himself to think of the Wërgas kithfolk rather than beasts.",
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        }
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        "those of a kith or clan"
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          "clan",
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  "word": "kithfolk"
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  "etymology_text": "From kith + folk.",
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        {
          "ref": "1860, Philological Society (London), Transactions of the Philological Society, digitized edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2011, page 37",
          "text": "Those that were kith-folk (?) to the great devil,",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1940, Eugenics Pamphlets, Issues 12-59, digital edition, Eugenics Society of Northern California, published 2008, page 46",
          "text": "They seem instinctively to prefer their kith-folk of Russian Karelia.",
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          "ref": "1974, Albert Silversteen, Human Communication: Theoretical Explorations, page 205",
          "text": "In the beginning there was one adult male and one adult female, with no kinfolk or kithfolk, and no culture.",
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        },
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          "text": "Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy.",
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        },
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