benevolence

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Disposition to do good. uncountable
    — gesture of benevolence
  2. Charitable kindness. uncountable
    — His acts of benevolence earned him great respect.
  3. An altruistic gift or act. countable
  4. A kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority, first so called under Edward IV in 1473. UK,countable,historical,uncountable

词形变化

benevolences plural

词汇关系

反义词
malevolence
衍生词
omnibenevolence unbenevolence

词源

Circa 1400, original sense “good will, disposition to do good”, Old French benivolence from Latin benevolentia (also directly from Latin), literally “good will”, from bene (“well, good”) + volentia, form of volēns, form of volō (“to wish”), components cognate to English benefit and voluntary, more distantly will (via Proto-Indo-European).
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