All 5 Uses of
benevolent
in
Jane Eyre
- Different benevolent-minded ladies and gentlemen in this neighbourhood and in London.†
Chpt 5
- Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation; new regulations were made; improvements in diet and clothing introduced; the funds of the school were intrusted to the management of a committee.†
Chpt 10
- I have forbidden Adele to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion: have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice; it will be one of the most benevolent acts you ever performed.†
Chpt 14
- He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow, and showed a solid enough mass of intellectual organs, but an abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have risen.†
Chpt 14
- I had marked neither modesty, nor benevolence, nor candor, nor refinement in her mind or manners -- and, I married her:
Chpt 27 *benevolence = kindness or generosity
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable