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Akin vs Pertain - What's the difference?

akin | pertain |

As an adjective akin

is (of persons) of the same kin; related by blood.

As a verb pertain is

to belong.

akin

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
  • * 1722 , , Moll Flanders , ch. 23:
    • We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
  • (often, followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
  • * 1677 , , 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 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 44:
    • Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
  • * 1837 , , The Pickwick Papers , ch. 39:
    • Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
  • * 1910 , , "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
    • Something akin to a smile shone on his face.

    Usage notes

    * This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.

    Anagrams

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    pertain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to belong
  • to relate, to refer, be relevant to

    • Usage notes

    * In all the above senses, pertain' is followed by '''to''' (or formerly by '''unto''', as in ''The King James Version of The Bible'' and in the plays of Shakespeare, although ' to is used in these works as well).

    Quotations

    (relate ): * 1989 , Sort out any booklets or manuals that pertain to the heating system or any other fixture that you are leaving behind. — One's company , Underwood, Lynn, Southampton: Ashford.

    Synonyms

    * appertain

    Antonyms

    * be irrelevant

    Anagrams

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