Adjective

1. Of the same kin; related by blood.
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 23:

     We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.

   • 1897, Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, ch. 2:

     The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea.

2. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
   • 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:

     Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?

   • 1710, anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator, vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:

     She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.

   • 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, ch. 44:

     Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.

   • 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, ch. 39:

     Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.

   • 1910, Zane Grey, "Old Well-Well," Success (July):

     Something akin to a smile shone on his face.