Usually means: Kindness and goodwill towards others.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word benevolence:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. benevolence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. benevolence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. benevolence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. benevolence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. benevolence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Benevolence, benevolence: Wordnik
  7. benevolence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. benevolence: Wiktionary
  9. benevolence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. benevolence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. benevolence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Benevolence, benevolence: Dictionary.com
  13. benevolence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. benevolence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Benevolence (phrenology), Benevolence (tax), Benevolence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Benevolence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. benevolence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. benevolence: Rhymezone
  19. benevolence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. benevolence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. benevolence: Free Dictionary
  22. benevolence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. benevolence: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. benevolence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. benevolence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. benevolence: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. benevolence: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (benevolence)

noun:  (uncountable) Disposition to do good.
noun:  (uncountable) Charitable kindness.
noun:  (countable) An altruistic gift or act.
noun:  (UK, historical) A kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority, first so called under Edward IV in 1473.

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