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Definition
kind, generous, or charitable
- to provide stable and benevolent government.Chapter 12 (45% in)
benevolent = kind or good
- While a judge should be benevolent in purpose, his awards should cause the criminal to suffer, else there is no punishment — and pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.Chapter 8 (57% in)
There are no more uses of "benevolent" in Starship Troopers.
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