lovingkindness means kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; (countable) an act of such kindness or mercy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
Why this word is great
LOVINGKINDNESS — [Noun] Kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; an act of such kindness or mercy. From loving + kindness, arising as a translation of the Hebrew ḥeseḏ (“grace, kindness, love, covenantal loyalty”). Unlike “kindness,” a general benevolence that can be casual and thin, or “mercy,” a compassion shown from power in response to a fault, lovingkindness is the proactive, stubborn devotion of a pledged heart. It is the hand that continues to stroke a fevered brow through the long night; it is the scent of bread baked for a neighbor in grief, delivered without a word; it is the promise remembered across a generation of silence—a quiet, beautiful rebellion against the entropy of the heart.
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- Kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; (countable) an act of such kindness or mercy.“But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that hee vnderſtandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exerciſe louing kindneſſe, iudgement, and righteouſneſſe in the earth: for in these things I delight, ſaith the Lord.”