All 4 Uses of
benevolent
in
The Woman Warrior
- It hexed the boys, who would or would not ask me to dance, and made them less scary and as familiar and deserving of benevolence as girls.†
Chpt 1 *benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- In front of one of the benevolent associations, a literate man was chanting the Gold Mountain News, which was taped to the window.†
Chpt 4benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- The benevolent associations?†
Chpt 5
- Late at night when we walked home from the laundry, they should have been sleeping behind locked doors, not overflowing into the streets in front of the benevolent associations, all alit.†
Chpt 5