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#906. Benevolence. -- N. benevolence

• Christian charity

• God's love

• God's grace

• good will

• philanthropy

• unselfishness

• good nature

• good feeling

• good wishes

• kindness

• kindliness

• loving-kindness

• benignity

• brotherly love

• charity

• humanity

• fellow-

• feeling

• sympathy: goodness of heart

• warmth of heart

• bonhomie

• kind-

• heartedness

• amiability

• milk of human kindness

• tenderness

• love

• friendship

• toleration

• consideration

• generosity

• mercy

• charitableness

• bounty

• almsgiving

• good works

• beneficence

• "the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]

• acts of kindness

• a good turn

• good offices

• kind offices good

• treatment

• kind treatment

• good Samaritan

• sympathizer

• altruist

• V. be benevolent

• have one's heart in the right place

• bear

• good will

• wish well

• wish Godspeed

• view with an eye of favor

• regard with

• an eye of favor

• take in good part

• take an interest in

• feel an interest

• in

• be interested in

• feel interested in

• sympathize with

• empathize with

• feel for

• fraternize

• enter into the feelings of others

• do as you would be done by

• meet

• halfway

• treat well

• give comfort

• smooth the bed of death

• do good

• do a good

• turn

• benefit

• render a service

• be of use

• aid

• 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

• charitable

• beneficent

• humane

• benignant;

• bounteous

• bountiful

• good-natured

• well-natured

• sympathizing

• sympathetic

• complaisant

• well-meant

• well-intentioned

• fatherly

• motherly

• brotherly

• sisterly

• paternal

• maternal

• fraternal

• friendly

• 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

• ill nature

• ill will

• ill blood

• bad blood;

• enmity

• hate

• malignity

• malice

• maliciousness

• spite

• despite

• resentment

• uncharitableness

• incompassionateness

• gall

• venom

• rancor

• rankling

• virulence

• acerbity churlishness

• hardness of heart

• heart of stone

• obduracy

• cruelty

• cruelness

• brutality

• savagery

• ferity ]

• ferocity

• barbarity

• inhumanity

• immanity|

• truculence

• ruffianism

• evil eye

• cloven foot

• torture

• vivisection

• ill turn

• bad turn

• affront

• outrage

• atrocity;

• ill usage

• intolerance

• persecution

• tender mercies [ironical]

• "unkindest

• cut of all" [Julius Caesar]

• V. be malevolent

• bear spleen

• harbor spleen

• bear a grudge

• harbor a grudge

• bear malice

• betray the cloven foot

• show the cloven foot

• hurt

• annoy

• 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

• 914a

• Adj. malevolent

• unbenevolent

• unbenign

• ill-disposed

• ill-

• intentioned

• ill-natured

• ill-conditioned

• ill-contrived

• evil-minded

• evil-disposed

• malicious

• malign

• malignant

• rancorous

• despiteful

• spiteful;

• mordacious

• caustic

• bitter

• envenomed

• acrimonious

• virulent

• unamiable

• uncharitable

• maleficent

• venomous

• grinding

• galling

• harsh

• disobliging

• unkind

• unfriendly

• ungracious

• invidious

• uncandid

• churlish

• surly

• sullen

• 901a

• cold

• cold-blooded

• cold-hearted

• black-hearted

• hard-hearted

• flint-

• hearted

• marble-hearted

• stony-hearted

• hard of heart

• unnatural

• ruthless

• relentless

• cruel

• brutal

• brutish

• savage

• savage as a bear

• savage as a tiger;

• ferocious

• inhuman

• barbarous

• barbaric

• semibarbaric

• fell

• untamed

• tameless

• truculent

• incendiary

• bloodthirsty

• atrocious

• fiendish

• demoniacal

• diabolic

• diabolical

• devilish

• infernal

• hellish

• Satanic

• Tartaran

• Adv. malevolently

• with bad intent

• Phr. cruel as death

• "hard unkindness' alter'd eye" [Gray]

• homo

• homini lupus [Lat][Plautus]

• mala mens[Lat]

• malus animus [Lat][Terence].;

• "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind" [Hamlet]

• "sharp-tooth'd

• unkindness" [Lear]

#908. Malediction. -- N. malediction

• curse

• imprecation

• denunciation

• execration

• anathema

• ban

• proscription

• excommunication

• thunders of the Vatican

• fulmination

• aspersion

• disparagement

• vilification

• vituperation

• abuse

• foul language

• bad language

• strong language

• unparliamentary

• language

• billingsgate

• sauce

• evil speaking

• cursing

• profane

• swearing

• oath

• foul invective

• ribaldry

• rude reproach

• scurrility

• threat

• more bark than bite

• invective

• 932

• V. curse

• imprecate

• damn

• swear at

• curse with bell

• book and candle

• invoke curses on the head of

• call down curses on the head

• of

• devote to destruction

• execrate

• scold

• anathematize

• bold

• up to execration

• denounce

• proscribe

• excommunicate

• fulminate

• thunder

• against

• threaten

• curse and swear

• swear

• swear like a trooper

• fall a cursing

• rap out

• an oath

• damn

• Adj. cursing

• cursed

• woe betide;

• confusion seize! damn! damn it! damn you! damn you to hell! go to hell! go

• to blazes! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague

• Phr. delenda est Carthago[Lat]

#909. Threat. -- N. threat

• menace

• defiance

• abuse

• intimidation

• denunciation

• fulmination

• commination

• gathering clouds

• V. threat

• threaten

• menace

• snarl

• growl

• gnarl

• mutter

• bark

• bully

• defy

• intimidate

• keep in terrorem[Lat]

• hold up in

• terrorem[Lat]

• hold out in terrorem[Lat]

• shake the fist at

• double the

• fist at

• clinch the fist at

• thunder

• talk big

• fulminate

• use big words

• bluster

• look daggers

• stare daggers

• Adj. threatening

• menacing

• minatory

• abusive

• in terrorem[Lat]

• ominous

• defiant

• under the ban

• Int. vae victis[Lat]! at your peril! do your worst!

#910. Philanthropy. -- N. philanthropy

• humanity

• humanitarianism

• universal benevolence

• deliciae humani generis[Lat];

• cosmopolitanism

• utilitarianism

• the greatest happiness of the greatest

• number

• social science

• sociology

• common weal

• socialism

• communism

• Fourierism|!

• patriotism

• nationality

• love of country

• amor

• patriae[Lat]

• public spirit

• chivalry

• generosity

• philanthropist

• utilitarian

• Benthamite

• socialist

• communist

• cosmopolite

• citizen of the world

• amicus humani generis[Lat];

• knight errant

• patriot

• Adj. philanthropic

• humanitarian

• utilitarian

• cosmopolitan

• public-

• spirited

• patriotic

• humane

• large-hearted

• chivalric;

• generous

• Adv. pro bono publico[Lat]

• Phr. humani nihil a me alienum puto [Lat][Terence]

• omne solum forti

• patria [Lat][Ovid]

#911. Misanthropy. -- N. misanthropy

• incivism

• egotism

• (selfishness)

• moroseness

• cynicism

• misanthrope

• misanthropist

• egotist

• cynic

• man hater

• Timon

• Diogenes

• woman hater

• misogynist

• Adj. misanthropic

• antisocial

• unpatriotic

• egotistical

• morose

#912. Benefactor. -- N. benefactor

• savior

• good genius

• tutelary

• saint

• guardian angel

• good Samaritan

• pater patriae[Lat]

• salt of the

• earth

• 9

• auxiliary

#913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer -- N. evil doer

• evil worker;

• wrongdoer

• mischief-maker

• marplot

• oppressor

• tyrant

• destroyer

• Vandal

• iconoclast|!

• firebrand

• incendiary

• fire bug [U. S.]

• pyromaniac

• anarchist

• communist|!

• terrorist

• savage

• brute

• ruffian

• barbarian

• caitiff

• desperado

• hoodlum

• hood

• plug-ugly*

• pug-ugly* [U.S.]

• Red

• Skin

• tough [U. S.]

• Mohawk

• Mo-hock

• Mo-hawk

• bludgeon man

• bully

• rough

• hooligan

• dangerous classes

• ugly customer

• thief

• cockatrice

• scorpion

• hornet

• snake

• viper

• adder

• snake in the grass

• serpent

• cobra

• asp

• rattlesnake

• anaconda|!

• canker-worm

• wire-worm

• locust

• Colorado beetle

• alligator

• crocodile

• mosquito

• mugger

• octopus

• torpedo;

• bane

• cutthroat

• cannibal

• anthropophagus|!

• anthropophagist|!

• bloodsucker

• vampire

• ogre

• ghoul

• gorilla

• vulture

• gyrfalcon|!

• gerfalcon|!

• wild beast

• tiger

• hyena

• butcher

• hangman

• blood-hound

• hell-hound

• sleuth-hound

• catamount [U. S.]

• cougar

• jaguar

• puma

• hag

• beldam

• Jezebel

• monster

• fiend

• devil incarnate

• demon in human shape;

• Frankenstein's monster

• harpy

• siren

• Furies

• Eumenides

• Hun

• scourge of the human race

• Phr. faenum habet in cornu [Lat]

• 3. SPECIAL SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

#914. Pity. -- N. pity

• compassion

• commiseration

• bowels

• of

• compassion

• sympathy

• fellow-feeling

• tenderness

• yearning

• forbearance

• humanity

• mercy

• clemency

• leniency

• charity

• ruth

• long-

• suffering

• melting mood

• argumentum ad misericordiam[Lat]

• quarter

• grace

• locus

• paenitentiae[Lat]

• sympathizer

• advocate

• friend

• partisan

• patron

• wellwisher

• V. pity

• have pity

• show pity

• take pity

• commiserate

• compassionate

• condole

• sympathize

• feel for

• be sorry for

• yearn

• for

• weep

• melt

• thaw

• enter into the feelings of

• forbear

• relent

• relax

• give quarter

• wipe the tears

• parcere

• subjectis[Lat]

• give a coup de grace

• put out of one's misery

• raise pity

• excite pity

• touch

• soften

• melt

• melt the heart;

• propitiate

• disarm

• ask for mercy

• supplicate

• cry for quarter

• beg one's life

• kneel

• deprecate

• Adj. pitying

• pitiful

• compassionate

• sympathetic

• touched

• merciful

• clement

• ruthful

• humane

• humanitarian

• 9

• tender

• tender hearted

• tender as a chicken

• soft

• soft hearted;

• lenient

• forbearing

• melting

• v

• weak

• Int. for pity's sake! mercy! have mercy! cry you mercy! God help you!

• poor thing! poor dear! poor fellow! woe betide! "quis talia fando

• temperet a lachrymiss!" [Lat][Vergil]

• Phr. one's heart bleeding for

• haud ignara mali miseris succurrere

• disco [Lat][Vergil]

• "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" onor di

• bocca assai giova e poco costa[Garrick][It]

#914a. Pitilessness. -- N. pitilessness

• inclemency

• severity

• malevolence

• V. have no mercy

• shut the gates of mercy

• give no quarter

• Adj. pitiless

• merciless

• ruthless

• bowelless

• unpitying

• unmerciful

• inclement

• grim-faced

• grim-visaged

• uncompassionate

• inexorable

• harsh

• unrelenting

#915. Condolence. -- N. condolence

• lamentation

• sympathy

• consolation

• V. condole with

• console

• sympathize express pity

• testify pity;

• afford consolation

• supply consolation

• lament

• express

• sympathy for

• feel grief in common with

• feel sorrow in common with

• share

• one's sorrow

• 4. RETROSPECTIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

#916. Gratitude. -- N. gratitude

• thankfulness

• feeling of obligation

• sense of obligation

• acknowledgment

• recognition

• thanksgiving

• thanksgiving

• giving

• thanks

• thankful good will

• thanks

• praise

• benediction

• paean

• Te Deum

• grace

• grace before meat

• grace after meat

• grace before meals

• grace after

• meals

• thank offering

• requital

• V. be grateful

• thank

• give thanks

• render thanks

• return

• thanks

• offer thanks

• tender thanks

• acknowledge

• requite

• feel under an obligation

• be under an obligation

• lie under an

• obligation

• not look a gift horse in the mouth

• never

• forget

• overflow with gratitude

• thank one's stars

• thank one's lucky

• stars

• bless one's stars

• fall on one's knees

• Adj. grateful

• thankful

• obliged

• beholden

• indebted to

• under

• obligation

• thank you very much! thanks a lot! thanks a heap

• thanks loads [coll.];

• thank Heaven! Heaven be praised! Gott sei Dank[Ger]!

#917. Ingratitude. -- N. ingratitude

• thanklessness

• oblivion of

• benefits

• "benefits forgot"

• thankless task,thankless office

• V. be ungrateful

• forget benefits

• look a gift horse in the

• mouth

• Adj. ungrateful

• unmindful

• unthankful

• thankless

• ingrate

• wanting in

• gratitude

• insensible of benefits

• forgotten

• unacknowledged

• unrequited

• unrewarded;

• ill-requited

• Int. thank you for nothing! thanks for nothing! "et tu Brute!"

• [Julius Caesar]

• Phr. "ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend" [Lear]

#918. Forgiveness. -- N. forgiveness

• pardon

• condonation

• grace

• remission

• absolution

• amnesty

• oblivion

• indulgence

• reprieve

• conciliation

• reconcilement

• reconciliation

• propitiation

• excuse

• exoneration

• quittance

• release

• indemnity

• bill of indemnity

• act of indemnity

• covenant of indemnity

• deed of indemnity

• exculpation

• (acquittal) 970

• placability

• amantium irae[Lat]

• locus

• paenitentiae[Lat]

• forbearance

• V. forgive

• forgive and forget

• pardon

• condone

• think no more of

• let

• bygones be bygones

• shake hands

• forget an injury. excuse

• pass over

• overlook

• wink at

• bear with

• allow for

• make allowances

• for

• let one down easily

• not be too hard upon

• pocket the affront

• let off

• remit

• absolve

• give absolution

• reprieve

• acquit

• beg pardon

• ask pardon

• implore pardon

• conciliate

• propitiate

• placate

• make up a quarrel

• let the wound heal

• Adj. forgiving

• placable

• conciliatory

• forgiven

• unavenged

• Adv. cry you mercy

• Phr. veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Lat][Horace]

• more in sorrow

• than in anger

• "the offender

• never pardons" [Herbert]