Benevolence

Definitions: Benevolence

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.

Date "benevolence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Benevolence \Be*nev"o*lence\, noun. [Old French expression benevolence, from Latin expression benevolentia. See Benevolent.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Benevolence A "forced" gratuity, under the excuse of a loan, exacted by some of the Plantagenet kings. First enforced in 1473, it was declared illegal by the Bill of Rights in 1689. "Royal benevolences were encroaching more and more on the right of parliamentary taxation."-Green: History of the English People, vol. ii. book vi. chap. i. p. 197. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Benevolence

Synonym: benefaction (n). (additional references)

Antonym: malevolence (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Benevolence	Noun: benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy; unselfishness.
Disinterestedness	Noun: disinterestedness; Adjective: generosity; liberality, liberalism; altruism; benevolence; elevation, loftiness of purpose, exaltation, magnanimity; chivalry, chivalrous spirit; heroism, sublimity.
Love	Affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness; Adjective: heart, brotherly love; benevolence; attachment.
Philanthropy	Noun: philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism universal benevolence; endaemonism, deliciae humani generis; cosmopolitanism utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, social science, sociology
Price	Dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage, likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Benevolence

English words defined with "benevolence": Condignity, cosmopolitan ♦ inactive ♦ Kind-heartedness ♦ largess, largesse ♦ passive ♦ Sisters of Charity, Systematical ♦ Unbenevolence. (references)

Specialty definitions using "benevolence": benevolent society ♦ Fingers ♦ Hopkinsians ♦ Lantern, Liquor ♦ Marseilles' Good Bishop ♦ Shaking Hands, Sparrow ♦ voluntary association. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the meaning of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still in high benevolence, upwards towards space. (Forbidden Planet; writing credit: Irving Block; Allen Adler)
Lyrics	Collected by thoughts of eternal benevolence, hereby reject ("Anarchy Through Capitolism"; performing artist: Kottonmouth Kings)
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Domain	Title
Books	Baseball & Benevolence (reference) Benevolence (reference) Benevolence and Betrayal : Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism (reference) Benevolence and Blasphemy: The Memoirs of a Contemporary Art Collector (reference) Industrial Control Over the Socialist Town: Benevolence or Exploitation? (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Extinction of Benevolence [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	USS Benevolence (AH-13) moored amid the "Crossroads" target fleet, 13 July 1946. Ship at far left is USS Saratoga (CV-3). Closest ship in right background is either USS Pensacola (CA-24) or USS Salt Lake City (CA-25).Credit: NAVY.		Former U.S. Navy prisoners of war on board USS Reeves (APD-52) in Tokyo Bay, Japan, after being transferred from USS Benevolence (AH-13), 30 August 1945. They had just been liberated from the Nisson Mills Camp # 2, in the Tokyo Area.Credit: NAVY.
	Friendship, charity, benevolence.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Benedict Spinoza	Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Carlyle	Rare benevolence! the minister of God.
Homer	Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to few virtues.
Samuel Johnson	To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
T.l. Cuyler	I never knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose, but what we give to Christ we are sure to keep.
W. Nevins	Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic; it goes about doing good.
William Blake	You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	They were alike too, in a general benevolence of temper, and a strong habit of regard for every old acquaintance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	This result has always been confidently expected, from the character of personal integrity and of benevolence which the Sovereign of the Danish dominions has through every vicissitude of fortune maintained.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Justice and benevolence unite in favor of releasing the poor of our cities from burdens which are not necessary to the support of our Government and tend only to increase the wants of the destitute.
James Buchanan	1857-1861	We ought to cultivate peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations, and this not merely as the best means of promoting our own material interests, but in a spirit of Christian benevolence toward our fellow-men, wherever their lot may be cast.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Benevolence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.14% of the time. "Benevolence" is used about 116 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.14%	115	30,138
Noun (proper)	0.86%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	116	N/A

Expression using "benevolence": humanitarianism universal benevolence. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "benevolence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bujari (bounty, generosity, largess, largesse, liberalism, liberality, nobility, nobleness, open-handedness), mirëdashje (fondling, goodwill), dhuratë e detyruar, dhuratë (bestowal, bounty, contribution, endowment, fairing, Favor, favour, gift, grant, handsel, oblation, offering, premium, present, presentation, testimonial, token), dashamirësi (affability, amiability, beneficence, geniality, goodwill, kindness). (various references)

Arabic		‏هبة (bestowal, blast, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, donation, endowment, gift, grant, liberality, offering, outburst, present, privilege, puff, waft, whiff), ‏تبرع (contribute, contribution, donate, donating, liberality, subscribe), ‏صدقة (alms, baksheesh, bounty, charity, dole, handout, philanthropy), ‏النزعة إلى الخير, ‏الخيرية. (various references)

Bulgarian		благосклонност (favour), благотворителност (beneficence, charity), доброжелателство (favour, friendliness, goodwill, kindness). (various references)

Chinese		仁爱. (various references)

Czech		shovívavost (charity, clemency, connivance, forgiveness, indulgence, lenience, leniency, mercy), laskavost (benignity, Favor, favour, goodness, grace, graciousness, kindliness, kindness). (various references)

Dutch		eenzijdige rechtshandeling (act of benevolence). (various references)

Farsi		نیک خواهی , نوع پرستی (Philanthropy), سخاوتمندی , خیرخواهی (Generosity, Zeal). (various references)

Finnish		suosiollisuus (favourable attitude), hyväntahtoisuus (goodwill, kindness). (various references)

French		bienveillance, bienfaisance (beneficence), donation, acte de bienveillance. (various references)

German		wohlwollen (affection, goodwill, kindness). (various references)

Greek		καλοσύνη (clemency, goodness, humaneness, kindness), φιλανθρωπία (charity, chritableness, graciousness, humanity, philanthropy). (various references)

Hebrew		חסי�"ות (charity, devoutness, piety), חס�" (benefaction, boon, charity, goodness, grace, graciousness, kindness), �'מילות חס�"ים (benefection, charity, favour, philanthropy). (various references)

Hungarian		jóakarat (amity, benignity, friendliness, goodwill), jótékonyság (benefaction, beneficence, bounty, charity, gratefulness, pious deeds), jóindulat (benignity, kindliness, propitiousness, well-meaningness). (various references)

Indonesian		kebajikan (good deeds, virtue, worthiness), kebaikan (advantage, good, goodness, merit). (various references)

Italian		benevolenza (charity, Favor, favour, goodwill, kindness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		慈悲 (charity, compassion, mercy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぜ�"�"う (all-A, discernment, distance from the ground to the highest point of an object, eye socket, former conduct, glint in eye, good conduct, good deed, leading out, lining up shoulder to shoulder like flying geese, preceding paragraph, the flight formation of geese, the whole school), し�"�"う (advance, attack, belief, close friendship, creed, dead of night, deep crimson, deep plowing, developing, emergent, encouragement, faith, friendship, giving a lecture in the Emperor's presence, good fellowship, intimacy, invasion, lecturing to the emperor, middle of the night, midnight, paying tribute, pickled vegetables, pickles, promotion, rising, sailing on, sincere), じぜ�"し�" (liberality), じし�" (attendant, by oneself, core, courtier, earthquake, magnetic needle, mercy, personally, self-confidence), じひし�", じひ (charity, compassion, lady in waiting, mercy, one's own expense), じ�"し�" (human heart, human nature, human spirit, humanity, kindness, one's person, retainers, subjects, sympathy, the human body), じ�"あい (charity, dirt, dust, love, this drab world), じ�"じょ (magnanimity), じ�"じ (human affairs, kind-hearted, personnel affairs), じ�"とく (goodness, natural virtue, personal virtue), じ�" (9th in rank, as, as it is, as one likes, battle formation, because, camp, charity, encampment, humanity, man, ninth sign of the Chinese calendar, people, person, virtue), はくあい (charity, humanity, philanthropy), とくし (charity, special consideration, special envoy). (various references)

Korean		인덕. (various references)

Manx		my-chreeys, dooieid (congeniality, humaneness, naturalness), aigney mie (good faith, goodwill). (various references)

Norwegian		velvilje (favour, goodwill). (various references)

Pig Latin		enevolencebay

Portuguese		boa vontade (goodwill, readiness, willingness), benevolência (Favor, favour, goodness, goodwill, gradate, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, kindred), caridade (alms deed, charity). (various references)

Romanian		bunãvoinţã (amiability, amicableness, charity, clemency, condescension, friendliness, good will, goodwill, grace, graciousness, humanity, kindness, patronage, readiness, stoop, willingness), bunãvoie (exhilaration, goodwill), binefacere (advantage, boon, charity, dole, humanity). (various references)

Russian		благожелательность (amiability). (various references)

Scottish		seirc (affection, charity, love). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		blagonaklonost, dobrotvorstvo (benefaction, benefication, good deed, well doing), dobročinstvo (benefaction, benefication, good deed, well doing), čovekoljublje (philanthropy). (various references)

Spanish		benevolencia (dearness, kindliness, kindness). (various references)

Swedish		välvilja (benignity, good will, good-will, grace, kindness). (various references)

Thai		ความเมตตากรุ�"า (kindliness). (various references)

Turkish		yardımseverlik (charitableness, charity, cooperativeness, helpfulness, humanitarianism, humanity), hayırseverlik (charitableness, charity, humanitarianism, philanthropy). (various references)

Ukranian		щедрість (bounty, generosity, handsomeness, largeness, largess, largesse, liberality, munificence, open-handedness, prodigality), прихильність (acceptance, adherence, affectation, affection, bias, committal, devotion, endearment, favour, good-liking, goodwill, grace, kindness, liking, sympathy), добросердечність, доброзичливість (amiability, candor, candour, charity, good-liking, goodwill), добродійність (benefaction, beneficence, blessing, well doing). (various references)

Vietnamese		lòng từ thiện tính rộng lượng, lòng nhân từ (mercifulness, mercy), lòng nhân đức (charitableness, charity). (various references)

Welsh		elusen.garwch (charity). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	philanthropia. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	beneficentia, benevolentia, bonitas, bonitate, bonitatem, bonitatis, charitas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Th gunaiki o anhr thn ofeilomenhn eunoian apodidotw omoiwV de kai h gunh tw andri
Latin	405	Vulgate	Uxori vir debitum reddat similiter autem et uxor viro
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The hosebonde yelde dette to the wijf, and also the wijf to the hosebonde.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Let the man geve vnto the wyfe due benevolence. Lykwyse also the wyfe vnto the man.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 3
Cebuano	Ang bana kinahanglan magatugyan ngadto sa iyang asawa sa angay sa magtiayon, maingon man ang asawa ngadto sa iyang bana.
Croatian	Muž neka vrši dužnost prema ženi, a tako i žena prema mužu.
Danish	Manden yde Hustruen sin Skyldighed; ligeledes også Hustruen Manden.
Dutch	De man zal aan de vrouw de schuldige goedwilligheid betalen; en desgelijks ook de vrouw aan den man.
Finnish	Täyttäköön mies velvollisuutensa vaimoansa kohtaan, ja samoin vaimo miestänsä kohtaan.
French	Que le mari rende � sa femme ce qu`il lui doit, et que la femme agisse de même envers son mari.
German	Der Mann leiste dem Weib die schuldige Freundschaft, desgleichen das Weib dem Manne.
Haitian Creole	Se pou gason an fè tout devwa yon mari dwe fè anvè madanm li. Konsa tou, se pou fanm lan fè tout devwa yon madanm dwe fè anvè mari li.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Suami harus memenuhi kewajibannya sebagai suami terhadap istrinya, dan istri harus memenuhi kewajibannya sebagai istri terhadap suaminya; masing-masing memenuhi kewajibannya terhadap yang lain.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Hendaklah suami itu menggenapkan kewajibannya kepada isterinya, demikianlah juga isteri itu kepada suaminya.
Italian	Il marito compia il suo dovere verso la moglie; ugualmente anche la moglie verso il marito.
Latvian	Vîram jâizpilda pienâkums pret sievu, tâpat arî sievai pret vîru.
Maori	Kia puta te whakaaro pai o te tane ki te wahine, hei te mea e tika ana: me to te wahine hoki ki te tane.
Norwegian	Mannen gjøre sin skyldighet mot hustruen, og likeså hustruen mot mannen;
Portuguese	O marido pague � mulher o que lhe é devido, e do mesmo modo a mulher ao marido.
Rumanian	Bqrbatul sq-wi kmplineascq fayq de nevastq datoria de soy; wi tot awa sq facq wi nevasta fayq de bqrbat.
Russian	нХЦ ПЛБЪЩЧБК ЦЕОЕ �"ПМЦОПЕ �'МБЗПТБУ� ПМПЦЕОЙЕ; � П�"П�'ОП Й ЦЕОБ НХЦХ.
Shuar	Aishmansha ni aishri asa nuwen Túratniua nuna umiktiniaiti. Núnisan nuwasha ni nuwe asa ni aishrin Túratniua nuna umiktiniaiti.
Spanish	El esposo cumpla con su esposa el deber conyugal; asimismo la esposa con su esposo.
Swahili	Mume atimize wajibu alio nao kwa mkewe, naye mke atimize wajibu alio nao kwa mumewe.
Swedish	Mannen give sin hustru vad han är henne pliktig, sammalunda ock hustrun sin man.
Uma	Uma lompe' ane tomane mpolaahi tobine-na ba tobine mpolaahi tomane-na, alaa-na uma-rapa hampoturua lau. Tomane kana mpo'ihii' gau' ncamoko hi tobine-na, wae wo'o-hawo tobine hi tomane-na. Butu dua-nara hore mpo'ihii' pogau' himpau hira'.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "benevolence": benevolences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Benevolence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: banevolence, bebevolence, benevalence, benevolance, benevolece, benevoolence, benvolence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "benevolence" (pronounced bune"vuluns)
7	-e" v u l u n s	prevalence.
6	-v u l u n s	ambivalence, equivalence.
5	-u l u n s	ambulance, excellence, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, pestilence, petulance, turbulence, vigilance, violence, virulence.
4	-l u n s	balance, condolence, counterbalance, imbalance, parlance, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, unbalance, Valence.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-e-e-l-n-n-o-v"
	-4 letters: convene, ennoble.
	-5 letters: cloven, eleven, elevon, veloce.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-e-e-l-n-n-o-v"
	+1 letter: benevolences.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6E 65 76 6F 6C 65 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110110 01101111 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#118 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006E 0065 0076 006F 006C 0065 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
benevolence	35
benevolence foundation medical	4
benevolence foundation international	4
benevolence order	3
benevolence charity donation giving mlm philantrophy sharing	3
benevolence international	2
association benevolence police	2
benevolence by mencius	2
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Benevolence

Definitions: Benevolence

Benevolence

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Benevolence

Literature

Synonym: Benevolence

Synonyms within Context: Benevolence

Benevolence

Disinterestedness

Love

Philanthropy

Price

Crosswords: Benevolence

Modern Usage: Benevolence

Screenplays

Lyrics

Commercial Usage: Benevolence

Books

Music

Photo Album: Benevolence

Familiar Quotations: Benevolence

Benedict Spinoza

Carlyle

Homer

Samuel Johnson

T.l. Cuyler

W. Nevins

William Blake

Use in Literature: Benevolence

Emma

Austen, Jane

Speeches: Benevolence

John Adams

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

James Buchanan

Usage Frequency: Benevolence

Expression: Benevolence

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Benevolence

benevolence

benevolence foundation medical

benevolence foundation international

benevolence order

benevolence charity donation giving mlm philantrophy sharing

benevolence international

association benevolence police

benevolence by mencius

Modern Translations: Benevolence

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