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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

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 away
  2. Loving County
  3. loving cup
  4. loving cups
  5. loving it or lumping it
  6. loving kindness
  7. loving kindnesses
  8. loving on
  9. loving up
  10. loving-kindness
  11. loving-kindnesses

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