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ˈover-ˈkind, a.
[over- 25, 28.]
Excessively kind, too kind. So ˈover-ˈkindly adv.; ˈover-ˈkindness, excessive kindness, too great kindness.
1476Sir J. Paston in P. Lett. III. 153 They leyhe to me onkyndenesse ffor ovyrkyndenesse. 1599Shakes. Much Ado v. i. 302. 1601 Sir W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca (1631) 61 How subject the people are to take over kindly, upon the actions performed for their good by great men. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. i. 23 Sicilia cannot shew himselfe ouer-kind to Bohemia. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 9, I love them, ‘not wisely, but too well’, and kill them with over-kindness. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 38 To such, Miss Keturah was often over-kind. |