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KINDNESS

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kindness substantiv

1. bunătate, bunăvoinţă, amabilitate; blândeţe;

prompted by feelings of kindness animat de simţăminte pline de bunăvoinţă;

thanks for your kindness vă mulţumesc pentru amabilitate;

to show kindness to smb. a arăta bunăvoinţă cuiva;

will you have the kindness to? eşti atât de bun să?

2. (înv.) prietenie; indulgenţă;

to have a kindness for smb. a fi indulgent faţă de cineva.

3. serviciu; faptă bună;

to do smb. a kindness a face un serviciu cuiva;

will you to do me a great kindness? vrei să-mi faci un mare serviciu?;

to heap / to shower kindnesses on smb. a copleşi pe cineva cu bunătatea / cu atenţiile;

a kindness is never thrown away o faptă bună nu e niciodată zadarnică.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"We'll let him run loose and see what kindness can do for him. And here's a try at it."

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I was very grateful for his kindness, and would be his friend, but nothing more, for a long while.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She had never received kindness from her aunt Norris, and could not love her.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She will be extremely sorry to miss seeing you, Miss Woodhouse, but your kindness will excuse her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Mrs Croft always met her with a kindness which gave her the pleasure of fancying herself a favourite, and on the present occasion, receiving her in that house, there was particular attention.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

These were my first reflections, but I soon learned that Mr. Kirwin had shown me extreme kindness.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then came the day when your mother’s kindness—her mistaken kindness—gave you the means of escaping to London.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a few minutes,’ said he, throwing open another door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the false bride said to the prince, “Dear husband, pray do me one piece of kindness.” “That I will,” said the prince.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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