All 3 Uses
benevolent
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Accepting the benevolent control of their gigantic employer, content with its definition of them as the "corporation's children," these rural men and women (and their children) adapted themselves to the terrain—both physical and psychological—of their new urban life.†
Chpt 2.benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
- The fortunes of the city declined, but the lucky workers at Chicopee clung tightly to their jobs, grateful for the security of employment in one more large, paternal, benevolent corporate system.†
Chpt 2.
- Schools were good around Franklin Borough and Johnstown; Bethlehem Steel, a benevolent despot, paid for good buildings and teachers and even an indoor swimming pool.†
Chpt 2. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)