kinsman
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But you here, whom nature made the wisest of all people, should drop your anger and make everyone who fights alongside us at sea a kinsman, a citizen.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025
When Mr. Anderson entered the chapel, which was used as a courtroom to hold all 63 defendants, he shook his head and tried to imagine how his kinsman must have felt in that moment.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2022
But the boy survived, recovered from his wounds, and with a small company headed for Russia, traveled up the Neva River to Lake Ladoga and then on to Kiev, where his kinsman Prince Yaroslav ruled.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021
Helen is related to the Camerons of Glen Nevis: John Cameron, her great, great, great-grandfather, came to Berbice in the early 1800s and set up a plantation with his kinsman Donald Charles Cameron.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019
“Rekh is a kinsman of his brother’s wife. You will meet me, then? Perhaps at the big tree by Aba the potter’s. Then we will go on together. Zau’s shop is near the palace.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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Twelfth Night
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