kindliness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.55 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

"Elmo looked upon his only granddaughter with kindliness, and often relented to her demands for chocolate."
"A father: no: In kynde a Father, but not in kyndlynes."
"1774, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man, Edinburgh: A. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1788, Volume 3, Sketch 10, Public Police with respect to the Poor, pp. 98-99, Creatures loathsome by disease or nastiness, affect the air in a poor-house; and have little chance for life, without more care and kindliness than can be expected from servants, rendered callous by continual scenes of misery."
"The dairyman, who rented the cows of Lodge, and knew perfectly the tall milkmaid's history, with manly kindliness always kept the gossip in the cow-barton from annoying Rhoda."
"Suddenly I forgot the bickerings of my uncle and brother and was overcome with tenderness and grief for my father. A rush from my memory of many clumsy kindlinesses, a realisation of the loss of his companionship came to me."
"“It’s lying you are!” said Gerald, and then, peering at her stricken face, he added in a burst of kindliness: “I’m sorry, daughter. But after all, you are nothing but a child and there’s lots of other beaux.”"

kindlinesses (plural)

sea-kindliness

favor

unkindliness