benevolentlyadv.
In a benevolent manner; with benevolence.
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blithelyc1000
goodfullya1300
blethelyc1300
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kindlya1375
benignlyc1380
en-gree14..
homelya1425
benevolently1532
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obsequiously?1536
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propitiously1600
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candidly1650
beneficentlya1717
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kindheartedly1803
1532 T. Elyot Let. in Gouernour (1880) I. Introd. p. lxxvii It pleasid you so benevolently to remembre me.
1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII xii His subiectes..most willyngly and beneuolently..do remit..the same summes of money.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic (1883) i. ii. 156 A debt benevolently contracted to serve a friend.
1879 Sat. Rev. 5 July 21 He was benevolently engaged in making catches [at cricket].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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