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Kindness   /kˈaɪndnəs/   Listen
Kindness

noun
1.
The quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic.
2.
Tendency to be kind and forgiving.  Synonym: forgivingness.
3.
A kind act.  Synonym: benignity.



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"Kindness" Quotes from Famous Books



... England they are common," replied Bob. "The great feeling in the hearts of the English throughout the whole country is—we must destroy this War God of Germany. Against Germans as individuals we feel nothing but kindness, but this War God, before which the people fall down ...
— All for a Scrap of Paper - A Romance of the Present War • Joseph Hocking

... the humanity and suavity of one of the most unfeeling and impudent Scotchmen that ever crossed the Tweed, was cried up to the skies, and he was eulogised by some of them as the very cream of the milk of human kindness! Then as to public opinion, and the popularity of the leading characters of the day, Mr. Fox, to wit,—Mr. Clifford has a hundred times declared to me, that this great Westminster patriot was never drawn home ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 1 • Henry Hunt

... were like to me— (Heigho, hard of heart!) Both love and lovers scorn'd should be. (Scorners shall be sure of smart.) A. If every maid were of my mind— (Heigho, heigho, lovely sweet!) They to their lovers should prove kind; Kindness is for ...
— Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama - A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration - Stage in England • Walter W. Greg

... the man's forehead, and bound up the cut with surgeon's plaster from the van. The man fell silent, looking at him in wonderment for such kindness. ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White

... C., and the machinery set in operation to accomplish what is now known as the work of that committee. For the temporary use of this committee a part of the House of Education and Labor Committee-room, through the marked kindness of Hon. Mr. Arnell, Chairman of the Committee, was granted; afterward, the beautiful, artistic House Agriculture Committee-room, also used for the Committee on Manufactures, was generously proffered by the chairmen of ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage


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