Both Uses of
kindred
in
The Birthmark
- In those days when the comparatively recent discovery of electricity and other kindred mysteries of Nature seemed to open paths into the region of miracle, it was not unusual for the love of science to rival the love of woman in its depth and absorbing energy.†
- The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.†
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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