All 3 Uses of
benevolent
in
The Plague
- The smile of benevolent irony that always played on it had seemed to endow it with perpetual youth; now, abruptly left out of control, with a trickle of saliva between the slightly parted lips, it betrayed its age and the wastage of the years.†
Part 4
- ...And it was this that put him in the bad books of his hostess. ... All his subsequent efforts to bring the good lady round to, anyhow, a state of benevolent neutrality came to nothing.
Part 4 *benevolent = kindly
- In which case we must make shift with a mild, benevolent diabolism.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable