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What does benevolence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word benevolence? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) Disposition to do good
  2. (uncountable) Charitable kindness
  3. (countable) An altruistic gift or act
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They have repeatedly given up their time to save lives and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their benevolence.
The inconsistency and disproportionateness which has been occasioned in our sentiments of benevolence, offers a curious moral phenomenon.
In such a case, the person has failed to show benevolence for morally discreditable reasons, and so has behaved badly.
The disaster left the world in great grief, but it has responded with unprecedented benevolence.
After all, how can we expect a person who is cruel to small creatures to show kindness and benevolence to his countrymen?
He believes that the motive of benevolence, so dear to empiricist morality, is a species of mere inclination, and therefore morally neutral.

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