Benevolently
[bi'nevələntli]
Definition
(adv.) in a benevolent manner; 'she looked on benevolently'.
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Examples
- And yet you rescued me from a strange and perilous situation; you have benevolently restored me to life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Mr. Wilson's mind was one of those that may not unaptly be represented by a bale of cotton,--downy, soft, benevolently fuzzy and confused. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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