Definition of Kindly

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Kindly

According to the kind or nature; natural.

Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.

Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.

Naturally; fitly.

In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.

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Kindly Quotations

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
Alan Greenspan

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana

Kindly Translations

kindly in German is freundlich
kindly in Italian is valevole
kindly in Latin is benigne
kindly in Spanish is vigente

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