kindly

Definition

Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic.

Etymology

From Middle English kyndely, kyndeliche, from Old English cyndelīċ (“natural, kindly”); equivalent to kind + -ly.

Example Sentences

• "A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons."
• "The shade by which my life was crost, […] Has made me kindly with my kind"
• "This was the first long train journey I ever took, and the details remain in my memory as sharply as if they had taken place last week. Hopping on the Circle Line to King's Cross, boarding the compartmentalised train, the kindly ticket inspectors, and every station where the Grimsby express stopped (in those days it didn't go through to Cleethorpes)."