Elmo looked upon his only granddaughter with kindliness, and often relented to her demands for chocolate.
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Kindliness
Synonyms for "kindliness" (31 found)
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28 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φῐλίᾱ noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Bulgarian
1 entries- добрина noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Czech
2 entries- laskavost noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
- vlídnost noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Dutch
1 entries- vriendelijkheid noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Hungarian
4 entries- jóindulat noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
- jóság noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
- kedvesség noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
- szívélyesség noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Irish
4 entries- caoideanas noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
- caoithiúlacht noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
- cineáltas noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
- conlacht noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Italian
1 entries- bonarietà noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Manx
1 entries- kenjallys noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Middle Irish
1 entries- dóendacht noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Portuguese
1 entries- amabilidade noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Romanian
1 entries- bunătate noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Spanish
1 entries- amabilidad noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎀𐎐𐎌𐎚 noun (the state of feeling kindly towards someone or something)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
A father: no: In kynde a Father, but not in kyndlynes.
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1774, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Sketches of the History of Man, Edinburgh: A. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1788, Volume 3, Sketch 10, Public Police with respect to the Poor, pp. 98-99, Creatures loathsome by disease or nastiness, affect the air in a poor-house; and have little chance for life, without more care and kindliness than can be expected from servants, rendered callous by continual scenes of misery.
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The dairyman, who rented the cows of Lodge, and knew perfectly the tall milkmaid's history, with manly kindliness always kept the gossip in the cow-barton from annoying Rhoda.
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