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  • Here are all of the Latin words that could conceivably be translated into English as "kind": pius, lenis, genus, comis, benignus, benignitas, beneficus, et almus.

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  • Itaque almus votorum sponsor olim ei concessit securitatem ab ommibus animantibus, hominibus tamen exceptis.

    Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866

  • Brachman Superûm regnator, Sthânus nec non augustus Nârâyanus, Indrasque almus, coram visendus Ventorum cohorte circumdatus, in magno isto sacrificio equino regis magnanimi.

    Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866

  • fluxit in hanc omni sanguine tota Venus. haec florum sidus, haec Lucifer almus in agris, 5

    A Rose with a hundred Petals Luxorius 1912

  • Pollenti stabilita manu, [(_w_) Deus almus, eandem

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • Spiritus altithroni templum sibi vindicat almus; "[149] when, amidst a great dissoluteness of manners, alike common to Church and laity, the opposite virtues were, as is invariable in such epochs of society, carried by the few purer natures into heroic extremes.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Spiritus altithroni templum sibi vindicat almus; "[149] when, amidst a great dissoluteness of manners, alike common to Church and laity, the opposite virtues were, as is invariable in such epochs of society, carried by the few purer natures into heroic extremes.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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