What's the difference between kinfolk and kith?

Kinfolk


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Kith


Definition:

  • (n.) Acquaintance; kindred.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bizarre sense of occasion that led him to choose the precise anniversary moment of the 1918 armistice to seize power on behalf of the white 5% of the Rhodesian population was nevertheless a useful reminder to his British "kith and kin" of his wartime service as an RAF fighter pilot - when "Smithy" was shot down, lost an eye and had plastic surgery for facial burns.
  • (2) But ex-Flight-Lieutenant Smith's appeal to his kith and kin was cunningly calculated and gave London the creeps.
  • (3) However, the danger is that immigration policy for businesspeople and the most highly skilled becomes based on the old “kith and kin” white Commonwealth of Australia, Canada and New Zealand by default, if not by design.
  • (4) I’d much rather deal with my own kith and kin.” The remain campaign accused Leave.EU of “double standards beyond parody”.
  • (5) The paper reviews evidence documenting the health-protective effects of the informal social support extended by kith, kin, and community gatekeepers.
  • (6) Turkey has repeatedly expressed concern over the attacks on the Turkmens, a Sunni Muslim minority whom many Turks regard as their kith and kin.

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