"take kindly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiii",
          "text": "An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat, […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19:",
          "text": "The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Sean Platt, David W. Wright, Available Darkness:",
          "text": "It seemed to John like the sort of place where the people all knew one another, were likely to have guns for protection, and rarely took kindly to strangers.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Diana Klebanon, Franklin L. Jonas, Diana Klebanow, People's Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History:",
          "text": "The young Darrow did not always take kindly to his father's strict ways. He was a disciplined student only when he liked what he was doing.",
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        "To like, accept, or condone."
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          "like",
          "like"
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          "accept",
          "accept"
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          "condone",
          "condone"
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        "(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To like, accept, or condone."
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        "in the negative"
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        },
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          "ref": "1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19:",
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        },
        {
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        },
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          "ref": "2020, Diana Klebanon, Franklin L. Jonas, Diana Klebanow, People's Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History:",
          "text": "The young Darrow did not always take kindly to his father's strict ways. He was a disciplined student only when he liked what he was doing.",
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        "(idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To like, accept, or condone."
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