All 6 Uses of
kindred
in
Middlemarch
- All his faults were marked by kindred traits, and were those of a man who had a fine baritone, whose clothes hung well upon him, and who even in his ordinary gestures had an air of inbred distinction.†
Chpt 2
- And it would be astonishing to find how soon the change is felt if we had no kindred changes to compare with it.†
Chpt 2 *
- For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal—this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully illuminated life.†
Chpt 3
- If he had been in London or Paris at that time, it is probable that such thoughts, seconded by opportunity, would have taken him into a gambling-house, no longer to watch the gamblers, but to watch with them in kindred eagerness.†
Chpt 7
- It was as if he had had a loathsome dream, and could not shake off its images with their hateful kindred of sensations—as if on all the pleasant surroundings of his life a dangerous reptile had left his slimy traces.†
Chpt 7
- She sat down in the library before her particular little heap of books on political economy and kindred matters, out of which she was trying to get light as to the best way of spending money so as not to injure one's neighbors, or—what comes to the same thing—so as to do them the most good.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(kindred) similar in quality or character
or:
closely related -- such as family or things with shared origin