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¶ Our auctour also in a great worke that he hath made vpon Rhetorike/declareth the handelynge of a theme symple by the same example of Iustice/addynge two pla [-] ces mo/whiche are called affines and con - traries on this maner.

The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528

Tum alias affines quasftiones vlde apud Brand* pluries citat.traBat. cap.

Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

The girl's female kin (including affines) are present.

Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

Ungayuk akpallugiit quaktuaktuq/niqisutaiyuq/paiyuktuq niqitatianaq inviting in guests (typically same generation non-kin) food gifts to close affines and nonkin (generally restricted to elders)

Climate change impacts on Canadian Inuit in Nunavut 2009

And like Makassane, N'waXidyula continued to travel back and forth between her vukatini and her birthplace throughout her adult life, usually in the company of other married women who had natal kinfolk on one side of the hills and affines on the other.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Rather than acquiring land on the basis of their traditional status as lineage affines, a significant proportion of Facazisse women now depended to some extent directly on the LC to "be fed."

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Yet Dumakute and Machun'wasse may have had other reasons to preserve and pass on their sense of themselves as ethnically (and territorially) different from their new affines and neighbors, and to urge Lili to remember that kernel of their story.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

These thematic nameslike those of the older women for whom an infant might be namedwere not gender-specific, and often commemorated oppressive material circumstances or sources of interpersonal conflict, especially between the name-giver and her affines:

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Dilectissima filia mea Anna, cui nomen in baptismo indidit bonæ memoriæ primogenita vestra, desponsata est honesto iuveni Martino Luxsolario (nam solem etiam pro insigni habet), doctoris Martini filio, petente id sua matre per cognatos et affines, et suadentibus communibus amicis nostris.

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell

Sed, o nefas, illi uero de te tanti criminis fidem capiunt atque hoc ipso uidebimur affines fuisse maleficio, quod tuis inbuti disciplinis, tuis instituti moribus sumus.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908