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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: bénévolence

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:benevolenceWikipedia

Etymology

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Circa 1400, original sense “good will, disposition to do good”, Old French benivolence from Latin benevolentia (also directly from Latin), literally “good will”, from bene (“well, good”) + volentia, form of volēns, form of volō (“I wish”), components cognate to English benefit and voluntary, more distantly will (via Proto-Indo-European).[1]

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /bəˈnɛvələns/

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Noun

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benevolence (countable and uncountable, plural benevolences)

1. (uncountable) Disposition to do good. gesture of benevolence show benevolence spirit of benevolence She smiled with benevolence at the children.
   • 1641 or 1642 (first performance), Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew: Or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, […], London: […] J[ames] Y[oung] for E[dward] D[od] and N[athaniel] E[kins] […], published 1652, →OCLC, Act III, signature [H4], recto:Benevolence? vvhich ſhall I be benevolent to; or vvhich firſt? I am puſſell'd in the choice.
2. (uncountable) Charitable kindness. His acts of benevolence earned him great respect.
3. (countable) An altruistic gift or act.
4. (UK, historical) A kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority, first so called under Edward IV in 1473.

Antonyms

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• malevolence

Derived terms

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• omnibenevolence
• unbenevolence

Related terms

[edit] English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *welh₁- (0 c, 16 e)

Translations

[edit] disposition to do good

Arabic: النزعَة إلى الخير m or f Bulgarian: доброжела́телност f (dobroželátelnost) Catalan: benevolència (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 仁慈 (zh) (réncí), 仁 (zh) (rén), 慈悲 (zh) (cíbēi) Danish: velvilje c Dutch: welwillendheid (nl) f, goede wil m, gulheid (nl) f Finnish: hyväntahtoisuus (fi) French: bienveillance (fr) f, bénévolence (fr) Galician: largueza f German: Gutmütigkeit (de) f, Mildherzigkeit f Greek: καλοσύνη (el) f (kalosýni) Ancient: φιλανθρωπία f (philanthrōpía) Hungarian: jóindulat (hu) sg Icelandic: örlæti Ido: bonvolo (io) Irish: dea-mhéin f Japanese: 仁 (ja) (じん, jin), 慈悲 (ja) (じひ, jihi) Latin: benevolentia f Macedonian: доброна́мерност f (dobronámernost), благонакло́нетост f (blagonaklónetost) Old English: welwillendnes f Polish: benewolencja f (archaic), łaskawość (pl) f, przychylność (pl) f, życzliwość (pl) f, dobroć (pl) f Portuguese: benevolência (pt) f Romanian: bunăvoință (ro) f Russian: благожела́тельность (ru) f (blagoželátelʹnostʹ), доброжела́тельность (ru) f (dobroželátelʹnostʹ), доброта́ (ru) f (dobrotá), ми́лость (ru) f (mílostʹ) Spanish: benevolencia (es) f Swedish: välvilja (sv) c Turkish: hayırseverlik (tr), yardımseverlik (tr), iyilikseverlik (tr), esirgemezlik (tr), himmet (tr) Ukrainian: доброзичли́вість f (dobrozyčlývistʹ), зичли́вість f (zyčlývistʹ)

charitable kindness

Finnish: anteliaisuus (fi) Greek: αγαθοεργία (el) f (agathoergía) Hungarian: jótékonyság (hu) sg

altruistic gift or act

Ottoman Turkish: مساعده (müsâʼade)

References

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1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “benevolence”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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