Welfare
['welfeə] or ['wɛl'fɛr]
Definition
(n.) Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prosperity, happiness, success, weal, well-being, advantage, benefit, profit.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Well-being, weal, success, good_fortune, prosperity, happiness, luck, thrift
ANT:Adversity, reverse, unsuccess, unprosperousness, unhappiness, illluck, harm,hurt
Typed by Carlyle
Definition
n. state of faring or doing well: freedom from any calamity &c.: enjoyment of health &c.: prosperity.
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Examples
- Even cousins may be sorry to part; and in truth I am very, very sorry, Richard, though I know it's for your welfare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nevertheless, these central regions of the world remain central, and their welfare and participation is necessary to the permanent peace of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They wanted not safety, but triumph, not world welfare, but world empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Always, this flame had burned in his heart, sustaining him through everything, the welfare of the people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The reformer might point to phrases like human welfare which appear in his writings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It trebled the output of grain, and the welfare of the people has proven largely dependent on their food supply. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I am acquainted with my personal history, and I have it in my power to assure you that you never can advance my welfare by such means. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now they will be the best who love their subjects most, and think that they have a common interest with them in the welfare of the state. Plato. The Republic.
- The beneficent effect of their activities on the health and general welfare of the masses of the people bears witness to the sanity and worth of the culture th at prompted these activities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I shall leave the decision to you, for you know best what will be for your eventual welfare. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It involves me in correspondence with public bodies and with private individuals anxious for the welfare of their species all over the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His chief reliance was on education and improved methods of husbandry, but he resembled Horace Greeley in h is hospitality to any project for the public welfare. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I do not shrink from saying that it will not tend to your son's eternal welfare or to the glory of God. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You will see, by its contents, that on your favourable and fatherly consideration of it, depend his future happiness and welfare. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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