(n.) The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words.
(n.) Softness; mildness; propitiousness; as, kindliness of weather, or of a season.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Ireland once more, on a glowing evening with heather and gorse in bloom and the air fragrant with their honeyed and coconut scents, it seemed this couple's kindliness had long imbued the place, and was what had drawn me back time and again over decades.