#906. Benevolence.—N. benevolence, Christian charity; God's love,
God's grace; good will; philanthropy &c. 910; unselfishness &c. 942.
good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness &c. adj.;
loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-
feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-
heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love &c.
897; friendship &c. 888. toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy
&c. (pity) 914. charitableness &c. adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good
works, beneficence, "the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]. acts of
kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind
treatment. good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant[Fr]; altruist. V. be
benevolent &c. adj.; have one's heart in the right place, bear good
will; wish well, wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with
an eye of favor; take in good part; take an interest in, feel an
interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with,
empathize with, feel for; fraternize &c. (be friendly) 888. enter into
the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway. treat
well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn;
benefit &c. (goodness) 648; render a service, be of use; aid &c. 707.
Adj. benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging,
accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.
warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-
hearted; merciful &c. 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant;
bounteous, bountiful. good-natured, well-natured; spleenless[obs3];
sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant &c. (courteous) 894; well-meant,
well-intentioned. fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal,
maternal, fraternal; sororal[obs3]; friendly &c. 888. Adv. with a good
intention, with the best intentions. Int. Godspeed! much good may it
do! Phr. "act a charity sometimes" [Lamb]; "a tender heart, a will
inflexible" [Longfellow]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat: say only good
things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead]; "kind words are
more than coronets" [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay manana[Lat];
"the social smile, the sympathetic tear" [Gray].
#907. Malevolence.—N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention;
unkindness, diskindness[obs3]; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad
blood; enmity &c. 889; hate &c. 898; malignity; malice, malice
prepense[obs3]; maliciousness &c. adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c.