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KIND-HEARTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition
Example:
a generous and kindhearted teacher
Synonyms:
kind-hearted; kindhearted
Classified under:
Similar:
kind (having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior)
Context examples:
"We must be very careful here," said the kind-hearted Woodman, "or we may hurt these pretty little people so they will never get over it."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Mrs. Weston, kind-hearted and musical, was particularly interested by the circumstance, and Emma could not help being amused at her perseverance in dwelling on the subject; and having so much to ask and to say as to tone, touch, and pedal, totally unsuspicious of that wish of saying as little about it as possible, which she plainly read in the fair heroine's countenance.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He could now, without the drawback of a single unpleasant surmise, without a glance forward at any possible treachery in his guest, give way to all his natural kind-hearted civility in solicitous inquiries after Mr. Frank Churchill's accommodation on his journey, through the sad evils of sleeping two nights on the road, and express very genuine unmixed anxiety to know that he had certainly escaped catching cold—which, however, he could not allow him to feel quite assured of himself till after another night.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The kind-hearted, gentle Mrs. Weston had left her seat to join him and say, Do not you dance, Mr. Elton? to which his prompt reply was, Most readily, Mrs. Weston, if you will dance with me.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
