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BENEVOLENCE
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Traducere în limba română
benevolence substantiv
1. bunăvoinţă, bunătate, mărinimie, generozitate; dragoste de oameni, caritate, filantropie, milostivire.
2. dărnicie, binefacere.
3. (ist.) bir, dare, plocon (în Anglia).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
This was then the reward of my benevolence!
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Her emotion was such as Mrs. Jennings had attributed to a very different cause;—but whatever minor feelings less pure, less pleasing, might have a share in that emotion, her esteem for the general benevolence, and her gratitude for the particular friendship, which together prompted Colonel Brandon to this act, were strongly felt, and warmly expressed.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
Friendship and benevolence are the two principal virtues among the Houyhnhnms; and these not confined to particular objects, but universal to the whole race; for a stranger from the remotest part is equally treated with the nearest neighbour, and wherever he goes, looks upon himself as at home.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Well, said Mrs. Weston, smiling, you give him credit for more simple, disinterested benevolence in this instance than I do; for while Miss Bates was speaking, a suspicion darted into my head, and I have never been able to get it out again.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)