All 6 Uses
benevolent
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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- The old man placed his two hands on her shoulders, looked at her a moment with extreme benevolence and then gallantly kissed her.†
Chpt 2 *benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- "She's really very benevolent," she answered; after which she went over to her uncle, whose mirth was excited by her words.†
Chpt 2benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- He sat in a complicated mechanical chair, at the open window of his room, looking westward over the park and the river, with his newspapers and letters piled up beside him, his toilet freshly and minutely made, and his smooth, speculative face composed to benevolent expectation.†
Chpt 13
- This was by no means an act of vigilance on his part, but the fruit of a benevolent belief that his being of the company might help to cover any conjoined straying away in case Isabel should give their noble visitor another hearing.†
Chpt 14
- In spite of Sir Matthew Hope's benevolent recommendation Madame Merle did not remain to the end, as the issue of poor Mr. Touchett's malady had now come frankly to be designated.†
Chpt 19
- He didn't hang back, however, from civility, and presently observed to Isabel, with due benevolence, that she would soon have all her friends about her.†
Chpt 27benevolence = kindness and goodwill
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)