All 3 Uses
benevolent
in
The Handmaid's Tale
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- Is there no end to his disguises, of benevolence?†
Chpt 15 *benevolence = kindness and goodwill
- He's looking at me, not unbenevolently, but with curiosity, as if I am a puzzle to be solved.†
Chpt 29unbenevolently = without kindness or generositystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbenevolently means not and reverses the meaning of benevolently. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- His failure to do any of these things I experienced as the most incredible benevolence and luck.†
Chpt 41benevolence = kindness and goodwill
Definitions:
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(1)
(benevolent) kind, generous, or charitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)