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  • noun Plural form of kindliness.

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Examples

  • For with the memory of past wrongs, goes the memory of past benefits, of all the mutual kindlinesses of life, and each unit of humanity becomes self-centred and selfish.

    Life of Charles Dickens Marzials, Frank 1887

  • For with the memory of past wrongs, goes the memory of past benefits, of all the mutual kindlinesses of life, and each unit of humanity becomes self-centred and selfish.

    Life of Charles Dickens 1876

  • We all have some people who look up to us, and to whom small kindlinesses from us are precious.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

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