Definition of "kith and kin" [kith and kin]

• One's acquaintances and relatives. (noun-plural)
• One's relatives. (noun-plural)

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• "“Aux arrets,” or confinement to one's quarters, is the most common form of punishment inflicted by Old World monarchs upon those of their kith and kin who have failed to comply with their behests, and there is scarcely a single sovereign or prince of the blood, who has not been subjected to this species of discipline at one time or another of his career."
• "It was as if they found the world beyond their cove so terrible that they might be fouled by any contact with outlanders and that all but kith and kin were best counted as enemy."
• "Then he bethought him of his brother, Nur al-Din Ali, and how he had died in a strange land far from kith and kin and friends; and he wept and repeated these lines: — I wander ‘mid these walls, my Layla’s walls,"