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loving-kindness|ˈlʌvɪŋˈkaɪndnɪs|
[f. loving ppl. a. + kindness. Originally two words; the combination was introduced by Coverdale.]
Affectionate tenderness and consideration; kindness arising from a deep personal love, as the active love of God for his creatures.
1535Coverdale Ps. xxv. 6 Call to remembraunce, O Lorde, thy tender mercyes & thy louinge kyndnesses, which haue bene euer of olde. Ibid. lxxxix. 33 Neuerthelesse, my louynge kyndnesse wil I not vtterly take from him. 1554–9Songs & Ball. (1860) 3 What great lovyng kyndnes did God show in thys cace? a1729J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) 349 The amiable Attributes of Goodness and Loving-kindness. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 144 A lady of unbounded loving-kindness. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 2 The infinite mercy and loving-kindness of a supreme creator.
Hence (back-formation) loving-kindly adv.
1840Lowell Love, A love..that seeth faults, Not with flaw-seeking eyes..But loving-kindly ever looks them down. |