overkindness
English
Etymology
overkind + -ness
Noun
overkindness (uncountable)
- Excessive kindness.
- 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 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- O noble sir,
Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!
- 1908, James Prior, A Walking Gentleman, New York: Dutton, Chapter 12, p. 108,
- The pony stepped out at an invariable ten-mile-an-hour trot. The breeze raised by the motion tempered the overkindness of the sun […]
- 1959, George O. Smith, The Fourth “R”, Dell, 1979, Chapter , p. 37,
- 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.
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