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taken kindly

taken kindly is the past participle of take kindly.

Meaning of take kindly

Verb

take kindly (third-person singular simple present takes kindly, present participle taking kindly, simple past took kindly, past participle taken kindly)

  1. (idiomatic) To like, accept, or condone.
    • An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat, […]1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiii

Questions about taken kindly

What is taken kindly the past participle of?
Taken kindly is the past participle of take kindly.

Words near taken kindly in the dictionary

  1. taken it up the ass
  2. taken it upon oneself
  3. taken its course
  4. taken its rise
  5. taken its toll
  6. taken kindly
  7. taken L's
  8. taken law into one's own hands
  9. taken leave
  10. taken leave of one's senses
  11. taken liberties

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