BENEVOLENCE in a Sentence

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65 example sentences for BENEVOLENCE, such as:

1. He was a benevolent old man, he wouldn't hurt a fly.
2. The company has proved to be a most benevolent employer.
3. How could a benevolent king turn overnight into a despot?
4. Miss Mills, with an air of superior wisdom and benevolence, smiled upon us.
5. Ethan signed to them to stop, and Mrs. Hale leaned forward, her pink wrinkles twinkling with benevolence.

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 Meanings and Examples of BENEVOLENCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
benevolence
 n.  disposition to do good
 n.  an inclination to do kind or charitable acts
Classic Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  Ethan signed to them to stop, and Mrs. Hale leaned forward, her pink wrinkles twinkling with benevolence.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  Mrs. Gryce had a kind of impersonal benevolence: cases of individual need she regarded with suspicion, but she subscribed to Institutions when their annual reports showed an impressive surplus.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
3  It was the first time she had ever come across the results of her spasmodic benevolence, and the surprised sense of human fellowship took the mortal chill from her heart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
4  Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
5  They are professedly a custom established by the benevolence of the slaveholders; but I undertake to say, it is the result of selfishness, and one of the grossest frauds committed upon the down-trodden slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  The real piety and benevolence of the simple old man invested him with a temporary dignity and authority, as he spoke.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  He appeared about fifty years of age, but with an aspect expressive of the greatest benevolence; a few grey hairs covered his temples, but those at the back of his head were nearly black.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  My change of manner surprised and pleased the magistrate; perhaps he thought that my former exclamation was a momentary return of delirium, and now he instantly resumed his former benevolence.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
10  Day by day, nevertheless, their sour and rigid wrinkles were relaxing into something which, in the due course of years, might grow to be an expression of almost benevolence.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
11  Miss Mills, with an air of superior wisdom and benevolence, smiled upon us.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
12  The apprehensions of Isaac, however, were not ill founded; and the generous and grateful benevolence of his daughter exposed her, on her return to Ashby, to the unhallowed gaze of Brian de Bois-Guilbert.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  The old lady relieves the high-flown benevolence of her husband with a good deal of spirit.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  Though young, his long back was already bowed, and he walked with a forward thrust of his head and a general air of peering benevolence.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
15  There was something of Mr. Pickwick's benevolence in his appearance, marred only by the insincerity of the fixed smile and by the hard glitter of those restless and penetrating eyes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Example Sentence:
1  Mr. Fezziwig was a benevolent employer, who wished to make Christmas merrier for young Scrooge and his other employees.
2  Several wealthy and benevolent individuals in the county subscribed largely for the erection of a more convenient building in a better situation.
3  How could a benevolent king turn overnight into a despot?
4  The company has proved to be a most benevolent employer.
5  He was a benevolent old man, he wouldn't hurt a fly.