In soft silence shed the kindly shower.
Pope.
Should e'er a kindlier time ensue.
Wordsworth.
"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." Trench.
Kind"ly, adv. 1. Naturally; fitly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate
with the English language
Addison.
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.
Rom. xii. 10.
Kind"ness (?), n. [From Kind. a.] 1. The state or quality of being
kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or
disposition beneficence.
I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
Shak.
Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Wordsworth.