All 11 Uses of

benevolent

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The Mill on the Floss

And I'd take you in, if I saw you swimming," he added, in the tone of a benevolent patron.†
Chpt 1.6

…but his money was all locked up in excellent mortgages, and he could run no risk; that would be unfair to his own relatives; but he had made up his mind that Tulliver should have some new flannel waistcoats which he had himself renounced in favor of a more elastic commodity, and that he would buy Mrs. Tulliver a pound of tea now and then; it would be a journey which his benevolence delighted in beforehand, to carry the tea and see her pleasure on being assured it was the best black.†
Chpt 3.7

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf.†
Chpt 3.7

But there were good reasons for purchasing Dorlcote Mill, quite apart from any benevolent vengeance on the miller.
Chpt 3.7 *

benevolent = kind or generous

The desire to know that one has not looked an absolute fright during a few hours of conversation may be construed as lying within the bounds of a laudable benevolent consideration for others.†
Chpt 6.1

And Lucy had so much of this benevolence in her nature that I am inclined to think her small egoisms were impregnated with it, just as there are people not altogether unknown to you whose small benevolences have a predominant and somewhat rank odor of egoism.†
Chpt 6.1

And Lucy had so much of this benevolence in her nature that I am inclined to think her small egoisms were impregnated with it, just as there are people not altogether unknown to you whose small benevolences have a predominant and somewhat rank odor of egoism.†
Chpt 6.1

"I'm sure he approves you," said Stephen, smiling at her affectionately; "your conduct in going out to-night looks vicious, I own, but I know there is benevolence at the bottom of it."†
Chpt 6.6

As for dear little Lucy herself, her late benevolent triumph about the Mill, and all the affectionate projects she was cherishing for Maggie and Philip, helped to give her the highest spirits to-day, and she felt nothing but pleasure in the evidence of Maggie's attractiveness.†
Chpt 6.9

There was an entire absence of effusive benevolence in his manner; there was something almost cold in the gravity of his look and voice.†
Chpt 7.2

If Maggie had not known that his benevolence was persevering in proportion to its reserve, she might have been chilled and frightened.†
Chpt 7.2

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