Roget's Thesaurus

#906. Benevolence

Nouns

benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy etc. 910; unselfishness etc. 942. good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness etc. 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 etc. 897; friendship etc. 888. toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy etc. (pity) 914. charitableness etc. 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.

Verbs

be benevolent etc. 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 etc. (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 etc. (goodness) 648; render a service, be of use; aid etc. 707.

Adjectives

benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored. warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-hearted; merciful etc. 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful. good-natured, well-natured; spleenless; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant etc. (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned. fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal; friendly etc. 888.

Adverbs

with a good intention, with the best intentions.

Interjections

Godspeed!, much good may it do!

Phrases

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].