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Benevolence   /bənˈɛvələns/   Listen
Benevolence

noun
1.
Disposition to do good.
2.
An inclination to do kind or charitable acts.
3.
An act intending or showing kindness and good will.  Synonym: benefaction.





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"Benevolence" Quotes from Famous Books



... deserve admittance into the order of St. Francis was Ambrosio's highest ambition. His Instructors carefully repressed those virtues whose grandeur and disinterestedness were ill-suited to the Cloister. Instead of universal benevolence, He adopted a selfish partiality for his own particular establishment: He was taught to consider compassion for the errors of Others as a crime of the blackest dye: The noble frankness of his temper was exchanged for servile humility; and in order to break his natural spirit, the Monks terrified ...
— The Monk; a romance • M. G. Lewis
... of cause and effect. The power of God impresses itself not merely through the lower links of the chain of providence—cause and effect, but upon the higher part of that chain which sends down its influence, its intelligence, its all-wise benevolence, to work out the welfare of those that are the objects ...
— The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern • Knowles King
... appeared to me, most fascinating; there was a mingled kindness and courtesy in it which seemed to speak benevolence itself. It was a manner which I felt cold art could never have taught; it owed most of its charm to its appearing to emanate directly from the heart; it must be a genuine index of the owner's ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume II. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... pure benevolence that prompted the gift? Was the smile with which you afterwards related the circumstance to dear Mrs. Gingerford a smile of sincere satisfaction at having done a good action and witnessed the surprise and gratitude of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 • Various
... of philosophy than of scorn in his accent, and his countenance was the symbol of gentleness and benevolence; but I overheard many unquakerlike jokes from others, as to the comfortable assurance a would-be king must feel of a faithful alliance ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope


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