What's the difference between brethren and kindred?

Brethren


Definition:

  • (n.) pl. of Brother.
  • (pl. ) of Brother
  • (pl. ) of Brother

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kurds need to support their brethren,” Ali Haidar, the Syrian national reconciliation minister, told the Iraqi-Kurdish news site Rudaw.
  • (2) Though Koum is only in his late 30s and Acton in his early 40s, the men are older than many of their Silicon Valley brethren: Zuckerberg is only 29.
  • (3) Ten out of 10 for me, by the way, although I am a member of the Beardy Brethren so you could argue I have an unfair advantage.
  • (4) The following resolutions were adopted:– "That we, a monster meeting of the Orangemen of Newtownards and of the surrounding districts, recognise, with gratitude, the exertions of our brethren in time past, and declare our unalterable determination to stand or fall by the principles of our Order in defence of Her Majesty the Queen and of the British Constitution.
  • (5) Over the years, the same has not been said of some of his autocratic brethren.
  • (6) The PLO welcomed any help with reconstruction in Gaza, but called on "all Arab brethren to … use their leverage to ensure an end to the division and the policy of creating a separatist entity in the Gaza Strip, as [this] principally serves the Israeli agenda."
  • (7) Chibok is a small and conservative Christian enclave in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria where many parents are involved in translating the Bible into local languages and belong to the Nigerian branch of the Elgin, Illinois-based Church of the Brethren.
  • (8) Good news from you, our brethren,” he reads from a script, sitting flanked by the group’s black flag on one side and an AK47 on the other.
  • (9) We quarrel about just about everything and we’re never as organised as our Scandinavian brethren.
  • (10) Even on the Democratic side, the committed brethren of Obamadale insist that just because she came here first doesn’t mean Clinton has won over a new liberal base.
  • (11) Instead, they hurl themselves to the other side of the spectrum, becoming just as fanatically obsessed with the promotion of democracy, fighting their former extremist brethren – or selling their latest book.
  • (12) Sue Ellen has used a huge divorce settlement from JR to go into (unnamed) party politics, disappointing all of us who nursed a secret hope that she would fulfil her destiny by joining the Quivering Brethren .
  • (13) If any of them are also vigilante members of the terrifying Polish-Wahhabist Alliance (see above) conquering our British cities and, you’d think, slaying their brethren, you can’t really blame them; that is what it takes to put food on the table during George Osborne’s “economic recovery”.
  • (14) On 1 January 1993, the people of what became the Czech Republic were divorced from their brethren in Slovakia (to Havel's real distress, though there was nothing more he could have done to stop the secession).
  • (15) Last weekend Shekau issued an audio message calling on supporters not to be “overwhelmed by people like Donald Trump and the global coalition fighting our brethren in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and everywhere”.
  • (16) In absence of a decent team, nothing seems to unite Americans and draw their attention to the sport like perceived injustice against our 'brave Americans brethren.'
  • (17) Well-meaning Igbo leaders are calling on their brethren to "return home", referring to the attacks as "systematic ethnic cleansing".
  • (18) It was accompanied by an alarming call, as seen by Turkey’s leadership, by the PKK for Turkey’s Kurds to take up arms to help their Syrian brethren.
  • (19) We’ve learned from Scripture – as well as acts of courage from brave men like Gandhi, Dr. King and my dear departed friend Cesar Chavez – that every individual has a moral obligation to our brethren in struggle.
  • (20) The social and cultural origins of the Hutterian Brethren, the most inbred population in North America, are described along with the characteristics that make the group useful for genetic studies.

Kindred


Definition:

  • (n.) Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
  • (n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.
  • (a.) Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
  • (2) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
  • (3) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
  • (4) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
  • (5) Recently, a gene for ITD (DYT1) in a non-Jewish kindred was located on chromosome 9q32-34, with tight linkage to the gene encoding gelsolin (GSN).
  • (6) A four-generation 25-member kindred with Factor XI:C deficiency is reported.
  • (7) In a nationwide investigation in South Africa, 25 affected individuals in 15 Afrikaner kindreds have been studied.
  • (8) found linkage between manic depression and HRAS1 in a single large Amish kindred.
  • (9) Longevity analysis demonstrated elongation of life expectancy for kindred members, and there was an apparent rarity of premature cardiac events.
  • (10) The logarithm of the odds ratio between GTHR and c-erbA beta was 3.67, and therefore GTHR mapped to the c-erbA beta locus in this kindred.
  • (11) To investigate the possibility that the syndrome is caused by mutation in a tumor suppressor gene, we searched for loss of heterozygosity in 16 sporadic basal cell carcinomas, 2 hereditary basal cell carcinomas, and 1 hereditary ovarian fibroma and performed genetic linkage studies in five Gorlin syndrome kindreds.
  • (12) In the present study, we have analyzed the IF staining patterns of skin and fibroblast cultures from Marfan syndrome patients and normal first-degree relatives in nine Marfan kindreds.
  • (13) Consanguinity of the kindreds could not be established.
  • (14) Here we demonstrate that in this kindred, which shows linkage to chromosome 21 markers, there is a point mutation in the APP gene.
  • (15) It also abolishes the Aval site (CTCGGG) in exon VI, which can be directly detected with the enzymatic DNA amplification technique (PCR) and offers the possibility of direct analysis in carrier and prenatal diagnosis in kindreds with this mutation.
  • (16) Kindred S showed the effect in man of heterozygous and homozygous expression of a dominant negative form of c-erbA beta.
  • (17) Lifetime risk of dementia in early-onset FAD kindreds is consistent with an autosomal dominant inheritance model.
  • (18) A kindred with an X-autosome translocation and differential inactivation of the X chromosome is described.
  • (19) Depending on the size of the kindred, the pedigree automatically obtains a rectangular or circular appearance.
  • (20) The W family represents the largest such North American kindred yet reported.