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Kind   /kaɪnd/   Listen
Kind

noun
1.
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.  Synonyms: form, sort, variety.  "What kinds of desserts are there?"
adjective
(compar. kinder; superl. kindest)
1.
Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior.  "A kind master" , "Kind words showing understanding and sympathy" , "Thanked her for her kind letter"
2.
Agreeable, conducive to comfort.  Synonym: genial.  "The genial sunshine" , "Hot summer pavements are anything but kind to the feet"
3.
Tolerant and forgiving under provocation.  Synonym: tolerant.



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"Kind" Quotes from Famous Books



... after his humorous one; and with all his many moral merits, there was much that was stagey about Dickens. But this explanation alone is altogether inadequate and unworthy. There was in Dickens this other kind of energy, horrible, uncanny, barbaric, capable in another age of coarseness, greedy for the emblems of established ugliness, the coffin, the gibbet, the bones, the bloody knife. Dickens liked these ...
— Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • G. K. Chesterton
... and dark; not a star twinkled above me; I seemed to have left the habitations of men. In whatever direction I turned not a light was visible; all fellowship with my kind had vanished. No sound broke the unvarying stillness but the heavy plunge of my horse's feet and the hollow moan of the sea. Gradually I began to rouse from my stupor: awaking, as from a dream, my senses grew rapidly conscious of the perils by which I was surrounded. I knew not but some ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... the captain agreed blandly, while Liane confirmed his statement with many rapid and emphatic nods. "Mr. Monk, the owner, is my first cousin. Fortune has been less kind to me in a worldly way; consequently you see in me merely the skipper ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... the painter of many strange and fantastic but often powerful—sometimes very beautiful pictures—wrote poems of an equally remarkable kind. Some of them are as lovely as they are careless, while many present a curious contrast in the apparent incoherence of the simplest language. He was born in 1757, towards the close of the reign of George II. Possibly if he had been sent to an age more capable of understanding him, his genius would ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald
... Caecilius's arms, and bestowing a tremendous cut with it upon the side of the ass, sent him forward upon the plain at his greatest speed. The youth's manoeuvre was successful to the full. The asses of Africa can do more on an occasion of this kind than our own. Caecilius for the moment lost his seat; but, instantly recovering it, took care to keep the animal from flagging; and the cries of the mob, and the howlings of the priests of Cybele cooperated ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman


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