Synonyms:
benevolence, benefaction
Meaning: an act intending or showing kindness and good will
Synonyms:
benevolence
Meaning: an inclination to do kind or charitable acts
Synonyms:
benevolence
Meaning: disposition to do good
Usage examples
"This was then the reward of my benevolence!
PICKWICK'S BENEVOLENCE PROVES STRONGER THAN HIS OBSTINACY
Benevolence degenerates into tyranny, and admiration into servility.
Lady Fawn was known as a miracle of Virtue, Benevolence, and Persistency.
Benevolence attends both; but is connected with love in a more eminent degree.
But ,pray without ceasing, that you may sing from pure benevolence and not from pure self-love."
His forgiveness of injuries, and thus His splendid benevolence, had not yet come to its climax and crown till He said on the cross, 'Father, forgive them'.
Butler says in one deep place, that benevolence and justice and veracity are the basis of all good character in God and in man, and thus also in the God-man.
But disinterested benevolence can find other instruments to persuade people to their good, than whips and scourges, either of the literal or the metaphorical sort.
Let us encourage benevolence and gentleness and if he wishes to go without the fur-trimmed coat, why not do as he asks?" Mrs. Ellis kissed her husband and quietly left the room.