Definition of "kindlily" [kindlily]

• In a kindly manner. (adverb)

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• "In any case, it ought to be spelt "gingerlily", on the model of SOED-attested "kindlily"."
• "I must withdraw my suit warily, -- firmly, of course, yet very kindlily, you understand, so as to grieve her no more than must be."
• "But beyond these things the sun was dying out in a riot of colour, and its level rays fell kindlily upon the gaunt pines that were thick about us two, converting them into endless aisles of vaporous gold."