Explore Kinbote through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Kinbote in a sentence
Kinbote meaning
A fine paid to the kin of the victim of a crime.
Using Kinbote
- The main meaning on this page is: A fine paid to the kin of the victim of a crime.
Context around Kinbote
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kinbote
- In this selection, "kinbote" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, murdered, induced, acquired and quotes stand out and add context to how "kinbote" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ghost induced kinbote to recount and kinbote quotes the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kinbote" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kinbote
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kinbote's Commentary takes the form of notes to various numbered lines of the poem. (15 words)
Both authors recount many earlier events, Shade mostly in New Wye and Kinbote in New Wye and in Europe, especially the "distant northern land" of Zembla. (26 words)
After Shade was murdered, Kinbote acquired the manuscript, including some variants, and has taken it upon himself to oversee the poem's publication, telling readers that it lacks only line 1000. (31 words)
Kinbote quotes the passage but does not recognize it, as he says he has access only to an inaccurate Zemblan translation of the play "in his Timonian cave", and in a separate note he even rails against the common practice of using quotations as titles. (45 words)
He expanded this essay into a book in which he also argues that, in order to trigger Shade's poem, Hazel Shade 's ghost induced Kinbote to recount his Zemblan delusions to Shade. (33 words)
After Shade was murdered, Kinbote acquired the manuscript, including some variants, and has taken it upon himself to oversee the poem's publication, telling readers that it lacks only line 1000. (31 words)
Example sentences (5)
After Shade was murdered, Kinbote acquired the manuscript, including some variants, and has taken it upon himself to oversee the poem's publication, telling readers that it lacks only line 1000.
Both authors recount many earlier events, Shade mostly in New Wye and Kinbote in New Wye and in Europe, especially the "distant northern land" of Zembla.
He expanded this essay into a book in which he also argues that, in order to trigger Shade's poem, Hazel Shade 's ghost induced Kinbote to recount his Zemblan delusions to Shade.
Kinbote quotes the passage but does not recognize it, as he says he has access only to an inaccurate Zemblan translation of the play "in his Timonian cave", and in a separate note he even rails against the common practice of using quotations as titles.
Kinbote's Commentary takes the form of notes to various numbered lines of the poem.