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Definition of Kindlinesses
1. kindliness [n] - See also: kindliness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kindlinesses
Literary usage of Kindlinesses
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 (1883)
"Altogether their life, either there or here in London, was an uneventful one,
full of cheerful activities and kindlinesses ; and there seemed no reason why ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1895)
"It is not all drear poverty nor misery nor sin. It is not all coarseness and dirt
and despair. Nay, we have discovered heroisms and kindlinesses and ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"... for which they had been made to pay so dear—to be more gay, more full of the
social kindlinesses of their nature than they liad ever been before. ..."
4. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.: Late Head-master of by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1870)
"... it was full of kindlinesses without anything of a contrary sort; and it made
me wish that I could see the place and its residents oftener. ..."
5. A Wanderer in London by Edward Verrall Lucas (1906)
"... it would have purred like the friendliest tabby; nothing could induce her
pencil to abandon its natural bent for soft contours and grave kindlinesses. ..."