turn; benefit &c. (goodness) 648; render a service, be of use; aid &c. 707. 
     Adj. benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging,
accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.
     warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-
hearted; merciful &c. 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful.
     good-natured, well-natured; spleenless[obs3]; sympathizing,
sympathetic; complaisant &c. (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned.
     fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal,
fraternal; sororal[obs3]; friendly &c. 888. 
     Adv. with a good intention, with the best intentions. 
     Int.  Godspeed! much good may it do! 
     Phr. “act a charity sometimes” [Lamb]; “a tender heart, a will
inflexible” [Longfellow]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat:  say only good things about the dead, don’t speak ill of the dead]; “kind words are more than coronets” [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay manana[Lat]; “the social smile, the sympathetic tear” [Gray].

     #907.  Malevolence. —­ N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention;
unkindness, diskindness[obs3]; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity &c. 889; hate &c. 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense[obs3]; maliciousness &c. adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c. 900.
     uncharitableness &c. adj.; incompassionateness &c. 914a[obs3]; gall,
venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity[obs3], acerbity churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895.
     hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c.
adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity[obs3], ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.
     ill turn, bad turn; affront &c. (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity;
ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [ironical]; “unkindest cut of all” [Julius Caesar]. 
     V. be malevolent &c. adj.; bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge,
harbor a grudge, bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot.
     hurt &c. (physical pain) 378; annoy &c. 830; injure., harm, wrong; do
harm to, do an ill office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast.
     molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at;
play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.
     wreak one’s malice on, do one’s worst, break a butterfly on the wheel;
dip one’s hands in blood, imbrue one’s hands in blood; have no mercy &c. 914a. 
     Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-
intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed[obs3].
     malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful;
mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous,