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nounkind-heartedness (uncountable)
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of kindheartedness.
With such people, one is not secure in regard to owed duties; they hate owed duty, and prefer to do everything on their own” out of kind-heartedness and benevolence.
2012, Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood, Robert B. Louden, Lectures on Anthropology, →ISBN, pages 175–176
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kind-heartedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/kind-heartedness
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