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Definition of Overkind
1. too kind [adj] - See also: kind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overkind
Literary usage of Overkind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"Nay, for my part, I see not that she was to blame at all, but for overkind- ness
and confidence, and the wish to exalt her father. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1890)
"As for the white men thereabout, they were the rather overkind, I do reckon, as,
to such marked unfortunates, one naturally disposeth. ..."
3. Modern Essays by Christopher Morley (1921)
"... Wrote moving letters to me day by day; Hard though I tried to love I tried in
vain, For she was plain and lame and fat and short, Forty and overkind. ..."
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