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adverb

Kindly adv.

1.

Naturally; fitly. (Obs.) "Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language"

2.

In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige. "Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love."

adjective

Kindly adj. (compar. kindlier; superl. kindliest)

1.

According to the kind or nature; natural. (R.) "The kindly fruits of the earth." "An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting." "Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men."

2.

Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. "The shade by which my life was crossed,... Has made me kindly with my kind."

3.

Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent. "In soft silence shed the kindly shower." "Should e'er a kindlier time ensue." Note: "Nothing ethical was connoted in kindly once: it was simply the adjective of kind. But it is God's ordinance that kind should be kindly, in our modern sense of the word as well; and thus the word has attained this meaning."

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"Kindly" Quotes from Famous Books

... the rather, because the low condition of the stage in England, where Mr. Macready and Mr. Charles Kean are called great actors, makes the English newspaper-criticisms of little value. In default of this, I have been reading M. Fechter's acting edition of "Othello," which a friend kindly sent me from London. It is a curiosity,—not the text, which is incorrect, full of arbitrary changes, and punctuated in a way almost unintelligible to an English eye: colons being scattered about with truly French profusion. The stage-directions are the interest of the ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

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— Porto Rico - Its History, Products and Possibilities... • Arthur D. Hall

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— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman

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— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

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