benevolence

Preposition: of

• man: The monks cannot have been averse to a custom which gave them a claim upon the benevolence of the deceased man 's descendants.
• creator: It was accepted by Charles Darwin, even tho he came to doubt particular acts of divine providence and the benevolence of the creator.
• market: Such presupposition of the omniscient benevolence of the market God seems undeniably theological in nature.

Preposition: towards

mankind: Benevolence toward mankind excites wishes for their welfare, and such wishes endear the means of fulfilling them.

Converse of object

• suppose: The supposed benevolence of the Persian kings to Judaism depends purely on the bible itself.
• call: What Hobbes is concerned to deny is not that there is something called benevolence.
• show: The adoptee as a commodity has specific meanings, such as fulfilling a desire to have children or to show benevolence and charity.
• express: This inner wisdom activates your capacity to express benevolence for your fellow humans without regard for what is in it for you.
• see: If we look closely, we see that benevolence plays much the same functional role in the Inquiry that sympathy plays in the Treatise.

Adjective modifier

• universal: It knows nothing of universal benevolence or of a humane tolerance.
• Christian: There is a scope at home for Christian benevolence; there are battle-fields in London where ambulances would not be out of place.
• great: She was a lady of great benevolence who spent much of her time uplifting the poor, the funeral was at Beckenham.
• active: A man of rare excellence and simplicity of character, Active benevolence and wide influence.
• private: Page 328 Ringley Chapel appears to have been the first built and endowed in Lancashire by private benevolence after the Reformation.
• general: Their hold, therefore, is rather upon my compassion and general benevolence, rather than upon my esteem.

Modifies a noun

exception: There was no case for generally extending the scope of the benevolence exception to include payments made by tortfeasor to the victims.