kindly

• POS: Adjective, Adverb
• HYPHEN: kind=ly
• COUNT in NET: 6 in 6 verses (in OT : 5 in 5 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

kindly, a. [AS. cyndelic. See Kind, n. ].

•  According to the kind or nature; natural.  [1913 Webster]

  "The kindly fruits of the earth."  [1913 Webster]

  "An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting."  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.  [1913 Webster]

  "The shade by which my life was crossed, . . .
  Has made me kindly with my kind."  [1913 Webster]
•  Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.  [1913 Webster]

  " “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.  [1913 Webster]

  "In soft silence shed the kindly shower."  [1913 Webster]

  "Should e'er a kindlier time ensue."  [1913 Webster]

kindly, adv. 

•  Naturally; fitly.  [1913 Webster]

  "Examine how kindly the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language"  [1913 Webster]
•  In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.  [1913 Webster]

  "Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kindly, adv.
1 in a kind manner (spoke to the child kindly).
2 often iron. used in a polite request or demand (kindly acknowledge this letter; kindly leave me alone).

Idiom

look kindly upon regard sympathetically. take a thing kindly like or be pleased by it. take kindly to be pleased by or endeared to (a person or thing). thank kindly thank very much.

kindly, adj. (kindlier, kindliest)
1 kind, kind-hearted.
2 (of climate etc.) pleasant, genial.
3 archaic native-born (a kindly Scot).

Derivative

kindlily adv. kindliness n.

Etymology

OE gecyndelic (as KIND(1))

THESAURUS

kindly

Christian, Christlike, Christly, accommodating, affable, affably, affectionate, agreeable, agreeably, amiable, amiably, amicable, amicably, ardently, attentive, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, benignantly, benignly, blissfully, breathlessly, brotherly, cheerfully, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, considerate, considerately, cooperative, cordially, courteously, decent, enjoyably, enthusiastically, excitedly, exuberantly, fair, favorable, favorably, fervently, fervidly, fraternal, friendly, generous, generously, genially, glowingly, good, good-hearted, gracious, graciously, gratifyingly, heart and soul, heartily, heatedly, heedfully, hospitably, human, humane, humanely, humanly, impassionedly, indulgent, intensely, keenly, kind, kindhearted, kindheartedly, kindly-disposed, loving, neighborly, nice, nicely, obliging, obligingly, overindulgent, overpermissive, passionately, permissive, pleasantly, please, pleasingly, pleasurably, politely, propitious, satisfyingly, sociable, softhearted, softheartedly, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, tenderheartedly, thoughtful, thoughtfully, vigorously, warm, warmhearted, warmheartedly, warmly, well, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, zealously

ROGET THESAURUS

kindly

Benevolence

N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.