a. [f. KIN1 + -LESS.] Having no relatives; without kin or kindred.
1720. T. Boston, Fourfold State (1797), 219. The base things of this world, the kinless things (as the word [ἀγενῆ] imports).
1840. Thorpe, Anc. Laws, I. 79. A man, kinless of paternal relatives.
1882. J. Purves, in Fraser’s Mag., XXVI. 500. Cromwell’s kinless judges were the first pure judges in Scotland.
1882. Ogilvie, Imperial Dict., Kinless loons, a name given by the Scotch to the Judges sent by Cromwell, because they distributed justice solely according to the merits of the cases, being uninfluenced by family or party ties.
