All 4 Uses
benevolent
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- "There will be no need," observed, with a sneer, one who neither felt benevolence nor had faith in it.†
*benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- It was little matter of surprise, perhaps, that the executioner should thus do his best to vindicate and uphold the machinery by which he himself had his livelihood and worthier individuals their death; but it deserved special note that men of a far different sphere—even of that consecrated class in whose guardianship the world is apt to trust its benevolence—were found to take the hangman's view of the question.†
- How can human law inculcate benevolence and love while it persists in setting up the gallows as its chief symbol?†
- Henceforth, they said, universal benevolence, uncoined and exhaustless, was to be the golden currency of the world.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)