BENEVOLENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does benevolently mean? 

• BENEVOLENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb BENEVOLENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a benevolent manner

  Familiarity information: BENEVOLENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BENEVOLENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a benevolent manner

Context example:

she looked on benevolently

Antonym:

malevolently (in a malevolent manner)

Pertainym:

benevolent (showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity)

 Context examples 

And yet you rescued me from a strange and perilous situation; you have benevolently restored me to life.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Fine gentlemen smiled at her benevolently as they talked with Martin and one another; a type-writer clicked; signatures were affixed to an imposing document; her own landlord was there, too, and affixed his signature; and when all was over and she was outside on the sidewalk, her landlord spoke to her, saying, Well, Maria, you won't have to pay me no seven dollars and a half this month.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But her faith in the good spot which exists in the heart of the naughtiest, sauciest, most tantalizing little ragamuffin gave her patience, skill, and in time success, for no mortal boy could hold out long with Father Bhaer shining on him as benevolently as the sun, and Mother Bhaer forgiving him seventy times seven.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)