All 3 Uses of
kindred
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Her kindred dwelling there would probably continue their daily lives as heretofore, with no great diminution of pleasure in their consciousness, although she would be far off, and they deprived of her smile.†
Chpt 3 *
- He spoke such things as these and more of a kindred sort to her, being still swayed by the antipathetic wave which warps direct souls with such persistence when once their vision finds itself mocked by appearances.†
Chpt 5
- With the impulse of a soul who could feel for kindred sufferers as much as for herself, Tess's first thought was to put the still living birds out of their torture, and to this end with her own hands she broke the necks of as many as she could find, leaving them to lie where she had found them till the game-keepers should come—as they probably would come—to look for them a second time.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
similar in quality or character
or:
closely related -- such as family or things with shared origin
or:
closely related -- such as family or things with shared origin