Both Uses of
benevolent
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- His pallid bloated face expressed benevolent malice and, as he had advanced through his tidings of success, his small fat-encircled eyes vanished out of sight and his weak wheezing voice out of hearing.†
Chpt 5
- I must go, he said softly and benevolently,
Chpt 5 *benevolently = kindly
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable