PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. Old English gecynde is natural, native, innate, fitting, proper, or inherited by birth. Middle English evidence adds affectionate and benevolent uses, making modern moral kindness a semantic development rather than the original whole meaning.
/kaɪnd/ · noun · adjective
An inherited English word whose noun history runs through nature, birth, class, and family while its adjective history runs through what is natural, native, fitting, and only later benevolent.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Documents natural, native, innate, proper, and birthright meanings without a primary benevolent gloss.
Headword GE-CYNDE, senses I–IIIDocuments the medieval natural, fitting, affectionate, loving, and benevolent range.
MED24249, especially senses 1–5 and dated quotationsThe adjective branch exposes the semantic change separately from the noun lineage.