Both Uses
kindred
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
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- "As for my friends," answered he, "I need not be much concerned, having already done for them all that was incumbent on me; for when I was not only in good health, but fresh and young, I distributed that among my kindred and friends which other people do not part with till they are old and sick: when they then unwillingly give that which they can enjoy no longer themselves.†
- They also place together those who are related, parents, and children, kindred, and those that are mutually allied, near one another;†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(kindred) similar in quality or character
or:
closely related -- such as family or things with shared origin - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)