a. [KIND a. 11.] Having naturally a kind disposition.

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1535.  Coverdale, Song 3 Childr., 67. O geue thankes therfore vnto ye Lorde: for he is kynde harted.

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c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., x. Be … gracious and kind, Or to thy selfe at least kind harted proue.

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1681.  Dryden, Prol. Univ. Oxford, 6. Of our sisters, all the kinder-hearted [are] To Edenburgh gone.

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1787.  Sir J. Hawkins, Johnson, 336. He was by nature a friendly and kind-hearted man.

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1860.  G. H. K., in Vac. Tour., 116. Donald, kindest-hearted and keenest of stalkers.

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  Hence Kindheartedness.

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1583.  Golding, Calvin on Deut. li. 303. That God had no pitie nor kindeheartednesse.

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a. 1735.  Arbuthnot, Gulliver Decypherd, Misc. Wks. 1751, I. 84. Noted for her kindheartedness to her Husband’s Patients.

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1896.  Anne Elliot, Ld. Harborough, II. 264. All this gratified her importance … and also her kindheartedness.

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