overkindness

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noun

Excessive kindness.

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Meanings

nounoverkindness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExcessive kindness.

    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]
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    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

    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

Origin

From overkind + -ness.

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