Both Uses
benevolent
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To the Lighthouse
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- His hands clasped themselves over his capacious paunch, his eyes blinked, as if he would have liked to reply kindly to these blandishments (she was seductive but a little nervous) but could not, sunk as he was in a grey-green somnolence which embraced them all, without need of words, in a vast and benevolent lethargy of well-wishing; all the house; all the world; all the people in it, for he had slipped into his glass at lunch a few drops of something, which accounted, the children thought, for the vivid streak of canary-yellow in moustache and beard that were otherwise milk white.†
Part 1benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- Then he would look up benevolently as always, from his smoky vague green eyes.†
Part 3 *benevolently = with kindness or generosity
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)