relative
/ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ noun B1- Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
- Something kindred or related to something else.
- A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
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“Who and what are you?” demanded Villefort, turning over a pile of papers, containing information relative to the prisoner, that a police agent had given to him on his entry, and that, already, in an hour’s time, had swelled to voluminous proportions, thanks to the corrupt espionage of which “the accused” is always made the victim.
Father and mother had both come from places far away and it was well known they hadn’t any relatives living.
She divided her children among her relatives and went to the States.
The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.
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