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loving-kindness

loving-kindness is the alternative form of lovingkindness.

Meaning of lovingkindness

Noun

lovingkindness (countable and uncountable, plural lovingkindnesses)

  1. (uncountable) Kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; (countable) an act of such kindness or mercy.
    • But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that hee vnderſtandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exerciſe louing kindneſſe, iudgement, and righteouſneſſe in the earth: for in these things I delight, ſaith the Lord.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 9:24

Forms of loving-kindness

pluralloving-kindnesses

Origin of loving-kindness

From loving + kindness.

Questions about loving-kindness

What is loving-kindness the alternative form of?
Loving-kindness is the alternative form of lovingkindness.

Words near loving-kindness in the dictionary

  1. loving it or lumping it
  2. loving kindness
  3. loving kindnesses
  4. loving on
  5. loving up
  6. loving-kindness
  7. loving-kindnesses
  8. lovinger
  9. lovingest
  10. lovingkindness
  11. lovingkindnesses

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