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# lovingkindness

«lovingkindness» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **steadfast love** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

steadfast love

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A deep, faithful and enduring love and kindness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lovingkindness/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today we say "kindness" or "steadfast love". The word is old and found mostly in older Bible translations.

### examples

- Pardon, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of Thy lovingkindness, and according as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.' (Torah NUM.14.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lovingkindness/#x1)
- The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. (Torah NUM.14.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lovingkindness/#x2)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 2 (Torah 2, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; save me in Thy lovingkindness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.463/)
- [Blessed be the LORD; for He hath shown me His wondrous lovingkindness in an entrenched city.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.468/)
- [He loveth righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the lovingkindness of the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.488/)
- [Thy lovingkindness, O LORD, is in the heavens; Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the skies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.565/)
- [How precious is Thy lovingkindness, O God! and the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Thy wings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.567/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lovingkindness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/L/lovingkindness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.