Meanings
nounkindnesse (countable and uncountable, plural kindnesses)
plural kindnesses
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of kindness.
Even in beasts, that have no voice at all, by the reciprocall kindnesse, which we see in them, we easily inferre there is some other meane of entercommunication: their jestures treat, and their motions discourse.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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