Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not of the same kindred, blood, race, or kind; not related.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Not kindred; not of the same kin.

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  • adjective obsolete Not kindred; not of the same kin.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ kindred

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Examples

  • You see in what a brotherly way I commence my letter: not with the frigid 'Sir' as if I were addressing one of a totally unkindred clay, one of the drossy children of earth, with whom I have no relationship and feel I could never have any familiarity.

    Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

  • Before I speak, however, of the beneficent humorist who next had my boyish heart after Goldsmith, let me acquit myself in full of my debt to that not unequal or unkindred spirit.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • Before I speak, however, of the beneficent humorist who next had my boyish heart after Goldsmith, let me acquit myself in full of my debt to that not unequal or unkindred spirit.

    My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878

  • You see in what a brotherly way I commence my letter: not with the frigid 'Sir' as if I were addressing one of a totally unkindred clay, one of the drossy children of earth, with whom I have no relationship and feel I could never have any familiarity.

    Life and Remains of John Clare Cherry, J L 1872

  • Consider the remarkable phenomenon of excellence in three unkindred, one might have thought incompatible, forms of public speech, -- that of the forum, with its double audience of bench and jury, of the halls of legislation, and of the most thronged and tumultuous assemblies of the people.

    Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845 Daniel Webster 1817

  • He warned that unkindred legislature therefore, composed of interests opposite and dissimilar in their nature, will in its exercise, emphatically be, like a house divided against itself. [

    The Enlarged Republic—Then and Now Sunstein, Cass R. 2009

  • Consider the remarkable phenomenon of excellence in three unkindred, one might have thought incompatible, forms of public speech, ” that of the forum, with its double audience of bench and jury, of the halls of legislation, and of the most thronged and tumultuous assemblies of the people.

    Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1903

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