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Quotation dates: 1577-1617
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Kinnisfolk, -folk(i)s, n. Also: kin(i)s-, kyn(n)is-. [ME. (c 1450) and e.m.E. kyns(e)-folke, e.m.E. -folk(e)s.] Kinsfolk, relatives. —(a) a1578 Pitsc. II. 185/8.
The Erle Bothwell … gave his presens with his kinisfolk a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xcv. 37.
Ane special That … schynit to thame suir Nixt to thair bairnes, kinsfolk and the puir 1590 Edinburgh Testaments XXI. 224.
The bundin dewtie of tender freindis and kinnisfolk(b) 1580 Protocol Book of J. Robertsone MS. 2 b.
Be the support of ony kynnisfolkis nor freindis a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI 51.
He had great respect to his freynds and kynisfolks
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