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Definition of Kindlily
1. in a kindly manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kindlily
Literary usage of Kindlily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Sentences by Harry Stuart Vedder Jones (1919)
"Do not use the inflected forms friendlily, kindlily, coward- lily, illy. ...
How kindlily he addressed you. 12. I can go only this far with you. II. ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"How else account for the wholly peculiar manner in which Scotch literature kindlily
makes fun of Scotch peculiarities, and for the phenomenon ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
"... of incomprehensible praise and admiration; and even the judicious Hallam speaks
of it kindlily and well. Others also, whose names are not made public, ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1884)
"... remained embedded in my memory, and sport kindlily around me when I am in good
humour, or at K.'s, or am sentimental. I had a Pole once for a friend, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1857)
"... Love, if not earthly yet heavenly, shall not too long be denied thee: Strong
in thy power to act kindlily — resting upon thine ambition : Peace, ..."
6. Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World by William Gilmore Simms (1868)
"Nuno de Tobar, indeed, was still his friend, and he knew others in the army, who
were kindlily inclined ; but it was not often that the parties saw each ..."
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