Both Uses of
kindred
in
Bleak House
- …and suitors of all sorts, and against the general crowd, in whose way the forensic wisdom of ages has interposed a million of obstacles to the transaction of the commonest business of life; diving through law and equity, and through that kindred mystery, the street mud, which is made of nobody knows what and collects about us nobody knows whence or how— we only knowing in general that when there is too much of it we find it necessary to shovel it away—the lawyer and the law-stationer…†
Chpt 10-12
- Wherever my son goes, he can claim kindred with Ap-Kerrig.†
Chpt 28-30 *
Definition:
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(kindred) similar in quality or character
or:
closely related -- such as family or things with shared origin