All 3 Uses
benevolent
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Edited)
- The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.
p. 25.3 *benevolence = kindness or generosity
- He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: "Yo ho, there!"
p. 42.9benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- ...there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers' benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths might water gratis as they passed;
p. 63.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)