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'''Kith and kin''' is an English [[adage]] meaning "those who are close to your heart." ''Kith'' is an obsolete word meaning "children", while ''kin'' is a shortened form of ''kinfolk'', meaning "[[family]]." The phrase was coined by [[Shakespeare]] in the play ''[[Hamlet]]'', in which he puts a twist on the then-current English idiom ''kith and make up'' by having the melancholy Dane say that Claudius and Gertrude did "a little more than kith."
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