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overkindness en · NOUN

Etymology

From overkind + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Excessive kindness.
    • The pony stepped out at an invariable ten-mile-an-hour trot. The breeze raised by the motion tempered the overkindness of the sun […] 1908, James Prior, chapter 12, in A Walking Gentleman, New York: Dutton, page 108:
    • O noble sir, Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me! 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
    • He had no intention of enduring this smothering by overkindness any longer than it took him to figure out how to run away, and where to run to. 1959, George O. Smith, The Fourth “R”, Dell, published 1979, Chapter , p. 37: