benevolent
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adjective
accommodating, affable, agreeable, altruistic, amiable, amicable, bearing good will, beneficient, benevolus, benign, big-hearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, complacent, condolent, considerate, cooperative, cordial, decent, disposed to good, doing good, eleemosynary, empathetic, freehanded, friendly, full of good will, generous, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, helpful, hospitable, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly disposed, liberal, magnanimous, merciful, munificent, neighborly, obliging, openhanded, philanthropic, softhearted, solicitous, supportive, sweet-tempered, sympathizing, tender, thoughtful, tolerant, understanding, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting, warm, warmhearted, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant
associated concepts: benevolent and charitable organization, benevolent and charitable purposes, benevolent association, benevolent corporation, benevolent institution, benevolent use, charitable corporation
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index
charitable (lenient), donative, humane, lenient, liberal (generous), meritorious, nonprofit, paternal, philanthropic, placable, propitious
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006