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took kindly

took kindly is the simple past 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 took kindly

What is took kindly the simple past of?
Took kindly is the simple past of take kindly.

Words near took kindly in the dictionary

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

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