benevolous

English

Etymology

Latin benevolus.

Adjective

benevolous (comparative more benevolous, superlative most benevolous)

1. (obsolete) kind; benevolent
   • 1679, Timothy Puller, The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted:

     a benevolous inclination is implanted into the very frame and temper of our Church's constitution

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “benevolous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)