"kind-hearted" meaning in English

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      "form": "kinder-hearted",
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    {
      "form": "most kind-hearted",
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      "form": "kindest-hearted",
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          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 209:",
          "text": "\"My dear Lavinia,\" exclaimed he, earnestly, \"you wrong yourself; you are far too kind-hearted to have any satisfaction in the shame and misery to which keeping back those letters will inevitably expose Lady Marchmont!\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1871 October 7, [Edmund Yates], “Castaway. […] Book II. Chapter III. The General Manager.”, in Charles Dickens, Jun., editor, All the Year Round: […], volume VI, number 149, London, page 435, column 2:",
          "text": "A tall, thin, fair-haired man Parkinson, with blonde whiskers and light blue eyes, of a benevolent expression, like a weak-minded fox; held in thraldom by a stout, over-dressed wife; churchwarden of his parish, and firmly believed by his vicar to be one of the most conscientious and kindest-hearted of men.",
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        {
          "ref": "1897 August 26 (indicated as 1898), G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty, “Promotion”, in With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years’ War, London, Glasgow, Dublin: Blackie & Son, […], page 73:",
          "text": "She came down the grand staircase with four of her maids behind her—for a notice had been sent half an hour before of his coming—prepared, no doubt, to meet a stiff and haughty king; but though Frederick can be every inch a king when he chooses, there is, as you know, no kinder-hearted man alive.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Warwick Deeping, The Secret Sanctuary, e-artnow, published 2021:",
          "text": "The pater is the kindest-hearted old soul, but there are times when he hates me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, translated by Emily Anderson, “Mozart to his Father”, in The Letters of Mozart & His Family: […], volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., […], pages 1167–1168:",
          "text": "But the middle one, my good, dear Constanze, is the martyr of the [Weber] family and, probably for that very reason, is the kindest-hearted, the cleverest and, in short, the best of them all.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1959, Jean Plaidy [pseudonym; Eleanor Alice Burford], “Choiseul and Madame du Barry”, in The Road to Compiègne (The French Revolution Series), London: Pan Books Ltd, published 1972, →ISBN, page 294:",
          "text": "‘You are very different from Madame de Pompadour. She would never have allowed the Duchesse de Gramont to come back to Court.’ / ‘Oh . . . the Pompadour. I could never be like her, so what’s the use of trying? I can only be what I am.’ / ‘The kindest-hearted lady in the world,’ said Louis.",
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        "Alternative form of kindhearted"
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  "word": "kind-hearted"
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      "form": "more kind-hearted",
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    },
    {
      "form": "kinder-hearted",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    {
      "form": "most kind-hearted",
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        "superlative"
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    },
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      "form": "kindest-hearted",
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          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 209:",
          "text": "\"My dear Lavinia,\" exclaimed he, earnestly, \"you wrong yourself; you are far too kind-hearted to have any satisfaction in the shame and misery to which keeping back those letters will inevitably expose Lady Marchmont!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871 October 7, [Edmund Yates], “Castaway. […] Book II. Chapter III. The General Manager.”, in Charles Dickens, Jun., editor, All the Year Round: […], volume VI, number 149, London, page 435, column 2:",
          "text": "A tall, thin, fair-haired man Parkinson, with blonde whiskers and light blue eyes, of a benevolent expression, like a weak-minded fox; held in thraldom by a stout, over-dressed wife; churchwarden of his parish, and firmly believed by his vicar to be one of the most conscientious and kindest-hearted of men.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1897 August 26 (indicated as 1898), G[eorge] A[lfred] Henty, “Promotion”, in With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years’ War, London, Glasgow, Dublin: Blackie & Son, […], page 73:",
          "text": "She came down the grand staircase with four of her maids behind her—for a notice had been sent half an hour before of his coming—prepared, no doubt, to meet a stiff and haughty king; but though Frederick can be every inch a king when he chooses, there is, as you know, no kinder-hearted man alive.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Warwick Deeping, The Secret Sanctuary, e-artnow, published 2021:",
          "text": "The pater is the kindest-hearted old soul, but there are times when he hates me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, translated by Emily Anderson, “Mozart to his Father”, in The Letters of Mozart & His Family: […], volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., […], pages 1167–1168:",
          "text": "But the middle one, my good, dear Constanze, is the martyr of the [Weber] family and, probably for that very reason, is the kindest-hearted, the cleverest and, in short, the best of them all.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Jean Plaidy [pseudonym; Eleanor Alice Burford], “Choiseul and Madame du Barry”, in The Road to Compiègne (The French Revolution Series), London: Pan Books Ltd, published 1972, →ISBN, page 294:",
          "text": "‘You are very different from Madame de Pompadour. She would never have allowed the Duchesse de Gramont to come back to Court.’ / ‘Oh . . . the Pompadour. I could never be like her, so what’s the use of trying? I can only be what I am.’ / ‘The kindest-hearted lady in the world,’ said Louis.",
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