overkindadj.

1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 128 It was more kindely then shee cared for or liked of. Uerily (sayth hee) if it were ouer kinde, it is more then I know.

1592 Arden of Feversham sig. G4^v Hast thou not lately found me ouer kinde? Didst thou not heare me cry they murther thee.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxx. 338 The second Richard ouerkind to Parasits, and foe to aunchant Cronets, feweld all might fier to Englands woe.

1675 N. Lee Nero iv. i. 34 Nature has not been overkind to me.

1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love Prol. Few Dames complain of Husbands over-kind.

1724 L. Welsted Epist., Odes &c. 125 To Thee, Zelinda, Nature, over-kind, Gave all her Gifts, of Feature and of Mind.

1818 C. Lamb Prince Dorus 17 Wise Nature, who to Dorus over kind, A length of nose too liberal had assign'd.

1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks I. xii. 261 People, when they endeavour to make their manners overkind, frustrate their own good intentions.

1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 139 Time that's o'er-kind, To all that be.

1948 Speculum 23 103 Some of the eccentricities of the text, to be sure, are due to the imperfect Latin of the scribe, and to put it that way is to be over-kind to him.

1992 Alton Herald (BNC) 27 Mar. 3 The council had a reputation for giving money. Mr. Smith agreed: ‘I think we are overkind sometimes.’