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形容詞

akind (comparative more akind, superlative most akind)

1. Obsolete form of akin. [17th–18th c.]
   • 1615, Richard Rogers, “The One and Twentieth Sermon Which is the Fifth of the Third Chapter of the booke of Jvdges”, in A Commentary Vpon the Whole Booke of Jvdges, London:  […] Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, page 176:

     Oh villaine intolerable! whereby, as by their perſecuting the Goſpell, they moſt liuely ſhew themſelues to bee vtter aduerſaries to Chriſt, and to bee moſt neare akind to them who commit the ſinne againſt which we ſhould not pray, that cannot bee forgiuen.

   • 1681, D. N., A letter from an Old Common-Council-Man to one of the New Common-Council  […], London:  […] W. Inghall, page 2:

     […] And the Reaſon why the Lutherans inclined to the humour of the Papiſts; was partly to get the upper-hand of the Calviniſts, and partly becauſe their Ceremonies were ſo near akind to the Popiſh Ceremonies: […]

   • 1793, Samuel Hopkins, “Concerning the Perſon and Character of the Redeemer” (chapter II), in The System of Doctrines, Contained in Divine Revelation, Explained and Defended, volume I, Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, Part II, page 417:

     If the creature which took a body by the incarnation were the firſt and greateſt creature that was ever created, he was no more a man, no more like and akind to the human race, or the nature of man, than the angels; but was more diſtant from than they, as he was much greater nd higher than they.

Further reading

• “akind, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.