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†; sympathizing, sympathetic;
complaisant &c (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned.
fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal,
fraternal; sororal†; 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].