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- adjective obsolete  Not knowing anyone; having no acquaintances orfamily .
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Examples
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								Heathcliff, who, kinless and kithless, was in the end compelled to see the property he has so cruelly amassed descend to his hereditary enemies. Emily Brontë 1900 
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								She's kithless and kinless -- one friend at the most, Songs of Labor and Other Poems Morris Rosenfeld 1892 
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								Kicks an 'cuffs wuz sandwiched between the poor child's meals, until the old woman died an' left him, kithless an 'kinless in the land. Dialect Tales 1883 
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								We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe 
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without friends or family. From "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010