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Meanings of benevolent in English
Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity.
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Usage of benevolent in English
1
The public hospitals and the benevolent societies frequently shared in the receipts.
2
Farewell; accept my corrections in the benevolent spirit of a true friend.
3
The solicitor was right to think that he had only benevolent intentions.
4
Such language is designed to make violence sound benevolent and infamy honourable.
5
His doctrines are the liberal and benevolent doctrines of the nineteenth century.
6
Trusting to the benevolent promises of the pasha, I accepted the mission.
7
Mary-Ellen left me, after a fashion, but not with such benevolent intentions.
8
She raises her hand to the smiling, benevolent attendant and says: Hung-huh-Guth.
9
I had an idea that he was old and silvery-haired and benevolent-looking.
10
Here he is a rich, benevolent god; he brings fertility, joy, expansion.
11
The commutation of pensions was an experiment of the most benevolent intention.
12
They must be faithful to the traitors and benevolent to the tyrant.
13
And there was no evil in such a benevolent expression of feeling.
14
Joseph II was not the only benevolent despot who met with discouragement.
15
Whenever a benevolent revolution is under way, Twitter swells up with pride.
16
Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor.
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Benevolent across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common