n. Two or more in-laws; parents-in-law, siblings-in-law, and other relatives by marriage; may refer to groups related to one another by marriage.
Word Usage
"ΒΆ 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."