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- noun archaic
kindness ormercy which is based on or arises fromlove
Etymologies
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Examples
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What David will praise God for (v. 3): Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, than lives, life and all the comforts of life, life in its best estate, long life and prosperity.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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David in the wilderness finds, by comfortable experience, that God's lovingkindness is better than life; and therefore (says he) my lips shall praise thee.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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God's lovingkindness is in itself, and in the account of all the saints, better than life.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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16 Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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I want to get out of my native New York mindset and into something yogis and Buddhists call "lovingkindness" meditation -- it's a way of rewiring your brain to think more positively about others.
Paul LaRosa: The Unmistakable Importance of Kindness Paul LaRosa 2011
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I want to get out of my native New York mindset and into something yogis and Buddhists call "lovingkindness" meditation -- it's a way of rewiring your brain to think more positively about others.
Paul LaRosa: The Unmistakable Importance of Kindness Paul LaRosa 2011
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I want to get out of my native New York mindset and into something yogis and Buddhists call "lovingkindness" meditation -- it's a way of rewiring your brain to think more positively about others.
Paul LaRosa: The Unmistakable Importance of Kindness Paul LaRosa 2011
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I want to get out of my native New York mindset and into something yogis and Buddhists call "lovingkindness" meditation -- it's a way of rewiring your brain to think more positively about others.
Paul LaRosa: The Unmistakable Importance of Kindness Paul LaRosa 2011
Logophile77 commented on the word lovingkindness
noun Tender regard; mercy; favor; a scriptural word.
"My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him."
Psalms 89:1.
http://www.kingjamesbibledictionary.com/Dictionary/lovingkindnesses
May 23, 2018