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UK
/bənˈɛvələns/
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[ US /bəˈnɛvəɫəns/ ]
[ US /bəˈnɛvəɫəns/ ]
NOUN
- an inclination to do kind or charitable acts
- disposition to do good
- an act intending or showing kindness and good will
How To Use benevolence In A Sentence
- This orphanage solicits its benevolence of the wealthy people.
- The answer is yes, I do believe in benevolence and malevolence as being a part of mans nature, I think where we differ, is the belief in the architect of nature and whether the formation of the natural world including the physique was a guided or a random process. Child Abuse Alert
- The concept of durbar reveals the jagadguru's benevolence for the welfare and well being of the devotees who participate to gain the acharya's blessings.
- You possess too much candour and benevolence not to make allowance, and to forgive the various emotions of my mind, which you have witnessed in this, to me, unhappy conferrence. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
- In the Confucian Doctrine, propriety a concept of the political theory, and benevolence, the ethical system.
- The quickness of his temper was counteracted by the generosity and benevolence of his heart.
- His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion. The Tragic Muse
- This eyewash is integral to the whole imperial project of the ‘civilising mission’, a kind of experience that lends support to the benevolence of western powers.
- Timon changes from benevolence to sour misanthropy with a many inartistic abruptness, many readers feel. Archive 2009-11-01
- Plato in his Symposium discusses only the kind of love that is found in men, which has its final cause in the lover but not in the beloved (terminato ne l'amante ma non ne l'amato), for this kind mainly is called love, since that which ends in the loved one is called friendship and benevolence (ché quel che si termina ne l'amato si chiama amicizia e benivolenzia). Judah Abrabanel