Kindliness
['kaɪndlɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition.
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Definition
(n.) Natural inclination; natural course.
(n.) The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words.
(n.) Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Benignity, kindness, benevolence, humanity, charity, sympathy, compassion, amiability, kind-heartedness, good-nature, good feeling, fellow-feeling.[2]. Mildness, softness, gentleness.
Editor: Verna
Examples
- Donnez-moi la main, said he, and the spite and jealousy melted out of his face, and a generous kindliness shone there instead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This insistence upon kindliness and consideration in the daily life is one of the main virtues of Islam, but it is not the only one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Come back to the ways of our common ancestors, come back to the light of kindliness and fellowship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Sola, let me add, was an exception; I never saw her perform a cruel or uncouth act, or fail in uniform kindliness and good nature. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He humanizes a strange country; he is a friend at court; he represents the legitimate kindliness of government, standing between the poor and the impersonal, uninviting majesty of the law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Pasteur's exchange of letters with these boys after they had returned to their homes reveals the kindliness of his disposition. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The cry raised against these men by the average reformer is a piece of cold, unreal, preposterous idealism compared to the solid warm facts of kindliness, clothes, food and fun. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Just as in the Moslem world the Spirit of Islam generation by generation produced its crop of courage, integrity, and kindliness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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