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", acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, 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, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly

Adv. with a good intention, with the best intentions

Int. godspeed, much good may it do, phr, "act a charity sometimes", "a tender heart, a will inflexible", de mortuis nil nisi bonum, "kind words are more than coronets", quando amigo pide no hay manana, "the social smile, the sympathetic tear"