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Kind-heartedness  n.  The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kind-heartedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... him to see her; not in the office, however, nor in the lawyer's room, but in the women's visiting-room. Notwithstanding his kind-heartedness, the inspector was more reserved than formerly. Evidently Nekhludoff's conversations with Maslenikoff had resulted in instructions being given to be more ...
— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

... blessing to your husband and children. In grateful appreciation of your artistic services and your companionship, the company begs you, my dear madame, to accept this humble token of our affection which is only a poor return for your goodness and kind-heartedness." ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont

... this time that, partly at the wish of the parents, and partly also out of his own kind-heartedness, Jacobi began seriously to occupy himself with Petrea; and he occupied her mind in such a manner as strengthened and practised her thinking powers, whereby the fermentation in her feelings and imagination was ...
— The Home • Fredrika Bremer

... the most narrow-minded. For pure Philistinism I don't think I know any town that equals it. Shut up in their own little corner, they imagine themselves more select than Sydney and Melbourne circles, because they are necessarily smaller. And yet for kind-heartedness these gossip-loving Philistines are not easily to be surpassed. As long as things go well with you they will talk against you; but no set of people are less open to the charge of neglecting ...
— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

... ago, partly on account of his kind-heartedness, partly since he could never resist a bargain and he got her for almost nothing, partly, perhaps because of his canny foresight, bought a wretched, puny, sickly, little runt of a four-year-old slave-girl, a mere rack of bones covered ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White



Words linked to "Kind-heartedness" :   mellowness, fellow feeling, sympathy, kindheartedness



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