kindly

[kind·ly]

In a kind manner or out of kindness

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According to the kind or nature; natural.

Adjective S.
generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an openhearted gift to charity"

Adjective S.
pleasant and agreeable; "a kindly climate"; "kindly breeze"

Adjective S.
showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor"

Adverb
in a kind manner or out of kindness; "He spoke kindly to the boy"; "she kindly overlooked the mistake"


n.
According to the kind or nature; natural.

n.
Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.

n.
Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.

adv.
Naturally; fitly.

adv.
In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.


Kindly

Kind"ly , a. [Compar. Kindlier ; superl. Kindliest.] [AS. cyndelic. See Kind, n. ] 1. According to the kind or nature; natural. [R.]
The kindly fruits of the earth.
An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting.
Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men.
2. Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.
The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind.
3. Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.
In soft silence shed the kindly shower.
Should e'er a kindlier time ensue.
&hand; "Nothing ethical was connoted in kindly once: it was simply the adjective of kind. But it is God's ordinance that kind should be kindly, in our modern sense of the word as well; and thus the word has attained this meaning." Trench.

Kindly

Kind"ly, adv. 1. Naturally; fitly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language
2. In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.
Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love.

According to the kind or nature; natural.

Naturally; fitly.

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Usage Examples

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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