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benevolences

n. (plural of benevolence English)

Usage examples of "benevolences".

At the standpoint of the other schemes: That it is good morals to let an ignorant duke do showy benevolences for his pride's sake, a pretty low motive, and go on doing them unwarned, lest if he were made acquainted with the actual motive which prompted them he might shut up his purse and cease to be good?

I will be charitable while this blessed lull continues: for our benevolences must soon be turned to other and more distant objects,--the amelioration of the condition of the Jews, the education of theological young men in the West, and the like.

Wordsworth, as we have seen, made no scruple to accept the benevolences of the Wedgwoods.

It was to be the crowning achievement in Sam Purdell's long list of benevolences towards his beloved citizens.

You are always lying to me about these secret benevolences, but you never have managed to deceive me yet.