Both Uses of
benevolent
in
Invisible Man by Ellison
- …to beg his pardon for what he had seen; to plead and show him tears, unashamed tears like those of a child before his parent; to denounce all we'd seen and heard; to assure him that far from being like any of the people we had seen, I hated them, that I believed in the principles of the Founder with all my heart and soul, and that I believed in his own goodness and kindness in extending the hand of his benevolence to helping us poor, ignorant people out of the mire and darkness.†
Chpt 4
- ...the myth of their goodness, and wealth and success and power and benevolence...
Chpt 5 *benevolence = kindness and goodwill
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable