Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Kindness

Kindness , noun

[From Kind. a.]

1.
The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.
I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. — Shakespeare
Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. — Wordsworth
2.
A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.