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kind-hearted, a.
[kind a. 11.]
Having naturally a kind disposition.
1535Coverdale Song 3 Childr. 67 O geue thankes ther⁓fore vnto y⊇ Lorde: for he is kynde harted. c1600Shakes. Sonn. x, Be..gracious and kind, Or to thy selfe at least kind harted proue. 1681Dryden Prol. Univ. Oxford 6 Of our sisters, all the kinder-hearted [are] To Edenburgh gone. 1787Sir J. Hawkins Johnson 336 He was by nature a friendly and kind-hearted man. 1860G. H. K. in Vac. Tour. 116 Donald, kindest-hearted and keenest of stalkers.
Hence kindˈheartedness.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. li. 303 That God had no pitie nor kindeheartednesse. a1735Arbuthnot Gulliver Decypherd Misc. Wks. 1751 I. 84 Noted for her kindheartedness to her Husband's Patients. 1896Anne Elliott Ld. Harborough II. 264 All this gratified her importance..and also her kindheartedness. |