adv. [f. KINDLY a. + -LY2.] In a kindly manner; with good nature and sympathy.

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1826.  Southey, Lett. (1856), III. 544. I have taken very kindlily to everything in Holland.

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1842.  Longf., in Life (1891), I. 441. He thanks you most kindlily for your poems.

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1842.  Sir H. Taylor, Edwin the Fair, I. vii. 54. Fight thy love-battles whilst thy heart is strong, And wounds heal kindlily.

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1868.  H. A. Page, in Contemp. Rev., VIII. 610. The golden chain linking it closely but kindlily with all that has gone before, with all that will follow after.

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