What's the difference between kinfolk and kinsfolk?

Kinfolk


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  • (1) Erdoğan, speaking in the eastern city of Gaziantep, said that a ground operation was needed to defeat Isis – sidestepping accusations that he is unwilling to allow Kurds in Turkey to help their embattled kinfolk in Syria or to deploy the army across the border to fight Isis because of the country’s historic enmity towards Kurdish separatists – in addition to ongoing peace negotiations with them.
  • (2) It also obeys a fundamental moral imperative of local culture to be loyal to one's followers and, above all, one's kinfolk.
  • (3) The notion of nevra provides a metaphor for social disorder such as interpersonal conflict between close kinfolk and value conflicts between generations.
  • (4) My New Roots Toronto-born, Copenhagen based Sarah Brittain is of the Kinfolk tribe, so this is a good place to start if aspirational is your thing.

Kinsfolk


Definition:

  • (n.) Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.

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