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good nature
noun
- pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability.
Word History and Origins
Origin of good nature1
Idioms and Phrases
A cheerful, obliging disposition, as in Ted is known for his good nature—he's always willing to help . [Mid-1400s]Example Sentences
According to a 1974 profile in Nuclear News, Wilkins was known for “his quick intelligence, … his directness and good nature.”
Just his playfulness, just his openness to anything, his good nature.
If I don't hear from you very decisively to the contrary, I shall come, and trust to your good nature to forgive it.
How much brighter still might that Genius shine, could it be equally inspired by Good-nature!
He's getting a little stiff in the joints of his good nature, but a good dose of flattery'll limber him up considerable.
Worse now understood the young man's troubles, and, in his good nature, would willingly endeavour to help him.
And Val, in his good-nature, bore the infliction passively so long as she kept civil and peaceable.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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