Citations:kin
English citations of kin
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- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
- "There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."
Inanimate kin
edit- 1915, The Scoop[1], volume 4, page 813:
- from that inspiration was evolved “June in Woodruff,” a little lyric that made Woodruff Place the envy of its kin.
- 1921, Duncan J. Frew, The Discovery of the Soul and the Law of Its Development[2], page 88:
- Oh, that this knowledge of the oneness of self might reach the understanding of men! Then would wars cease, then would violence cease, then would greed cease and all its kin[.
- 1923, George Malcolm Stratton, Anger: Its Religious and Moral Significance[3], page 176:
- In comparing lower with higher levels of religion, there has been seen a clear difference in the place held by anger and its kin.
- 1996, Donald W. Mertz, Moderate Realism and Its Logic[4], page 235:
- The Liar Paradox and Its Kin
- 2003, Roger S. Gottlieb, Liberating faith: religious voices for justice, peace, and ecological wisdom[5], page 99:
- The metaphors of the future are apt to revolve around globalization and its kin uniformity; the market and its kin consumerism; instrumental rationality and its kin order and predictability; and none of these metaphors has need of Gandhi.
- 2008, Dirk-Martin Grube, Peter Jonkers, Religions Challenged by Contingency: Theological and Philosophical ...[6]:
- And given this point of departure, they see to what extent contingency and its kin can be domesticated. In other words, many current philosophers explicitly or implicitly presuppose contingency and its kin.