What's the difference between kindliness and kingliness?

Kindliness


Definition:

  • (n.) Natural inclination; natural course.
  • (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.

Kingliness


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being kingly.

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Words possibly related to "kindliness"

Words possibly related to "kingliness"