Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Kindness of heart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sympathy arising from a kind heart
- noun sympathy arising from a kind heart
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Examples
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The kind-heartedness of the comforters was evident in their answers when asked about self-care.
Jim Luce: Dr. Judy on the Trauma of Disasters - like Haitian Earthquake 2010
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With increasing vehemence, though, conservatives have begun to argue that kind-heartedness, compassion, and a sense of community are actually evil: that they lead inevitably to Nazism and death camps.
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The kind-heartedness of the comforters was evident in their answers when asked about self-care.
Dr. Judy on the Trauma of Disasters - like Haitian Earthquake 2010
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With increasing vehemence, though, conservatives have begun to argue that kind-heartedness, compassion, and a sense of community are actually evil: that they lead inevitably to Nazism and death camps.
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Roger and Lynne, both from Trinidad, rival Patricia in poetic talent and kind-heartedness.
Don’t be jealous. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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"Cambodians who came into his presence found him charismatic because he embodied the ideals of conduct - self-control, kind-heartedness - that had been drummed into them for years" (Chandler, 1999, p. 151).
Pol Pot's Charisma 2008
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My initial misgivings about the premise were off-target as the show proved to exemplify the kind-heartedness of the people of Riverside.
Invasion Iowa 2005
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My initial misgivings about the premise were off-target as the show proved to exemplify the kind-heartedness of the people of Riverside.
April 2005 2005
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Now and then she found herself on ticklish ground, for the kind-heartedness which compelled her to help all distressed damsels out of a scrape, sometimes compelled her also to help them into one; whereon enraged fathers called Lucy ugly names, and threatened to send her into Exeter gaol for a witch, and she smiled quietly, and hinted that if she were
Westward Ho! 2007
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These slight defects were, however, superficial; he redeemed them by an exquisite kind-heartedness which a rigid moralist might call the indulgence natural to superiority.
Ursula 2006
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