The state of feeling kindly towards someone or something, or the actions inspired thereby. / (archaic) Favourableness; mildness. / (obsolete) Naturalness.

plural of kindliness

Having a kind personality; kind, warmhearted, sympathetic. / (dated) Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent. / (archaic) Lawful. / (obsolete) Natural; inherent to the kind or race.

In a kind manner, out of kindness. / In a favourable way. / Used to make a polite request: please. / (US) With kind acceptance; used with take. / (dialectal) Kind of, somewhat. / (archaic) Readily.

(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To like, accept or condone.

plural of kindly tenant

(historical, Scotland) A tenant of the same stock as his landlord, or who held his lands in succession, from father to son, for several generations.