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take kindly
vb. (context idiomatic English) to like, accept or condone
Usage examples of "take kindly".
But the Transylvania soldiers did not take kindly to a foreign prince, and behaved so unsoldierly that Sigismund was called back.
I'd have to be careful, the other traders won't take kindly to any voluntary embargo.
Old Sam had not looked like a man who would take kindly to losing something he regarded as his property.
And civilians don't take kindly to having martial law imposed on them.
He was a lean, weatherbeaten man in his early thirties: not a fellow who'd owned an estate full of serfs before the war, surely, but not one who'd take kindly to anyone who told him he couldn't dream of acquiring such an estate one day, either.