kindred spirit

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kindred spirit (plural kindred spirits)

1. (idiomatic) Someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself.

   She found in her neighbor a good friend, gardening companion and kindred spirit.

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.

   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

     But his fine qualities being perfectly understood and appreciated in those regions where his lot was cast, and where he had many kindred spirits to consort with, he may be regarded as having been born under a fortunate star, which is not always the case with a man so much before the age in which he lives.

   • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors‎:

     He repeated to Chad what he had been saying in the court to Waymarsh; how there was no doubt whatever that his sister would find the latter a kindred spirit, no doubt of the alliance, based on an exchange of views, that the pair would successfully strike up.

   • 2023 January 2, David Smith, “2024 Veepstakes: who will Donald Trump choose as his running mate?”, in The Guardian‎:

     He is a Trump kindred spirit who goads liberals, appeases Russian president Vladimir Putin and promotes the far-right “great replacement” theory that western elites are importing immigrant voters to supplant white people.

2. Someone or something with which one feels connected.

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