kinsfolk, -folks Now rare.
(ˈkɪnzfəʊk, -fəʊks)
[f. kin1 + folk, after kinsman.]
Persons of the same kin; relations by blood; relatives.
| α c 1450 Paston Lett. (K.O.), Kynsefolke. 1526 Tindale Luke ii. 44 They..sought hym amonge their kynsfolke and acquayntaunce. 1546 Heywood Prov. (1867) 37 Many kyns⁓folke and few freends, some folke saie. 1598 R. Grenewey Tacitus, Germanie i. (1622) 260 Their family and friends, and kinsfolcke. 1855 Kingsley Heroes, Argon. i. 76 That I may go home to my fathers and to my kinsfolk. |
| β 1514 E.E. Gilds (1870) 144 Hys kynfalkes benefactours and alle crysten saules. Ibid. 145 There kynsfolkes, benefactours. 1555 Eden Decades 70 The prosperitie of owre contrey and kynsefolkes. 1652 C. B. Stapylton Herodian 161 Their Friends and kinsfolks them upbraid. |