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#894. Courtesy. -- N. courtesy; respect &c. 928; good manners, good
behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness &c. adj.; biensance,
urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility,
civilization; amenity, suavity; good -temper, good humor; amiability, easy
temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension &c. (humility)
879; affability, complaisance, prvenance, amability, gallantry; pink of
politeness, pink of courtesy.
compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases,
ceremonial; ,salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil,
greeting, recognition; welcome, abord|, respects, devoir, regards,
remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love, best love, duty; empty
encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.
obeisance &c. (reverence) 928; bow, courtesv, curtsy, scrape, salaam,
kotow, kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection &c. (worship)
990; obsequiousness &c. 886; capping, shaking hands, &c. v.; grip of the
hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur, pledge;
love token &c. (endearment) 902; kiss, buss, salute.
mark of recognition, nod; "nods and becks and wreathed smiles"
[Milton]; valediction &c. 293; condolence &c. 915.
V. be courteous &c. adj.; show courtesy &c. n.
mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men,
conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the
amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's
manners.
receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome,
welcome with open arins; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand,
squeeze the hand; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade.
salute; embrace &c. (endearment) 902; kiss, kiss hands; drink to,
pledge, hob and nob; move to, nod to; smile upon.
uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present
arms; make way for; bow,; make one's bow,, make a leg; scrape, curtsy,
courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.
visit, wait upon, present oneself, pay one's respects, pay a visit &c.
(sociability) 892; dance attendance on &c. (servility) 886; pay attentions
to; do homage to &c. (respect) 928.
prostrate oneself &c. (worship) 990.
give one's duty to, send one's duty to, &c. n.
render polite &c. adj.; polish, civilize, humanize.
Adj. courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-
mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized,
cultivated; refined &c. (taste) 850; gentlemanlike &c. (fashion) 852;
gallant; on one's good behavior.
fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued;
oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious
&c. *886.
ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious,
affable, familiar; neighborly.
Adv. courteously &c. adj.; with a good grace; with open arms, with
outstretched arms; a bras ouverts; suaviter in modo, in good humor.
Int. hail! welcome! well met! ave! all hail! good day, good morrow!
Godspeed! pax vobiscum! may your shadow never be less!
Phr. Tien de plus estimable que la cermonie; " the very pink of
courtesy " [Romeo and Juliet]

#895. Discourtesy.-- N. discourtesy;ill breeding; ill manners, bad
manners, ungainly manners; insuavity; uncourteousness &c.adj.; rusticity,
inurbanity; illiberality, incivility displacency.

disrespect &c. 929; procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity;
misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman,
grossieret, brusquerie; vulgarity, &c. 851.
churlishness &c. adj.; spinosity, perversity,; moroseness &c.
(sulenness) 901a. sternness &c. adj.; austerity,; moodishness, captiousness
&c. 901; cynicism; tartness &c. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence,
asperity.
scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words,
contumely; unparliamentary language, personality.
bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump,
crosspatch; saucebox &c. 887; crooked stick; grizzly.
V. be -rude &c. adj.; insult &c. 929; treat with discourtesy; take a
name in vain; make bold with, make free with; take a liberty; stare out of
countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush.
cut; turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel; give the cold shoulder;
keep at a distance, keep at arm's length; look cool upon, look coldly upon,
look black upon; show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear.
lose one's temper &c. (resentment) 900; sulk &c. 90la; frown, scowl,
glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl.
render rude &c. ad .; brutalize, brutify.
Adj. discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered,
ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite,
unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like,
ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar &c. 851; dedecorous; foul-
mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.
uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive,
impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.
repulsive; uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant;
inaffable; ungentle, ungainly; rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff;
churlish, boorish, bearish; brutal, brusque; stern, harsh, austere;
cavalier.
taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting,
doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious;
snarling &c. v.; surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen &c. 901a;
peevish &c. (irascible) 901.
Adv. discourteously &c. adj.; with discourtesv &c. n., with a bad
grace.

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#896.. Congratulation. -- N. congratulation, gratulation;
felicitation; salute &c. 894; condolence &c. 915; compliments of the
season.
V. congratulate, gratulate; felicitate; give one joy, wish one joy;
compliment; tender one's congratulations, offer one's congratulations; wish
many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy new
year.
congratulate oneself &c. (rejoice) 838.
Adj. congratulatory, gratulatory.
Phr. " I wish you all the joy that you can wish " [Merchant of
Venice].

#897. Love. -- N. love; fondness &c. adj.; liking; inclination &c.
(desire) 865; regard, dilection|, admiration, fancy.
affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c. adj.; heart,
brotherly love; benevolence &c. 906; attachment.
yearning, , tender passion, amour; gyneolatry; gallantry,
passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture,
enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.
Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love
affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship &c.
902; amourette; free love.
maternal love, .
attractiveness; popularity,; favorite &c. 899.
lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau,
sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman,
Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive,
cicisbeo; caro sposo.
inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess,
cara sposa.
betrothed, affianced, fiance.
flirt, coquette; amorette; pair of turtledoves; abode of love,
agapemone.
V. love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be
partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love &c. with adj. ; have a
love &c. n. for, entertain a love &c. n. for, harbor cherish a love &c. n.
for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's
affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug,
cling to, cherish, pet.
burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument dote on,
dote upon. take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored &c. adj.; fall
in love with, lose one's heart; desire &c. 865.
excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain
the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of
have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear,
charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the
head.
get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself;
propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set
one's cap at, flirt.
Adj. loving &c. v.; fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten;
attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed &c. v.; in love; love-sick; over
head and ears in love.
affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous,
amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted,
motherly.
loved &c. v. beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious,
darling, pet, little; favorite, popular.
congenial; after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy,
after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to
one's own heart.
in one's good graces &c. (friendly) 888; dear as the apple of one's
eye, nearest to one's heart.
lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning;
charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating,
bewitching; amiable, like an angel.
Phr. amantes amentes [Terencel; credula res amor est [Ovid]; militat
omnis amasius [Ovid]; omnia vincit amor [Vergil]; si vis amari ama [Seneca]
the sweetest joy, the wildest woe [Bailey].

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#898. Hate. -- N. hate, hatred, vials of hate.
disaffection, disfavor; alienation, estrangement, coolness; enmity &c.
889; animosity &c. 900.
umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of
feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice &c. 907; implacability &c.
(revenge) 919.
repugnance &c. (dislike) 867; demonophobia, gynephobia, negrophobia;
odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of
execration; abomination, aversion, bte noire; enemy &c. 891; bitter pill;
source of annoyance &c. 830.
V. hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at;
shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against,
execrate;scowl &c. 895; disrelish &c. (dislike) 867.
owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice &c.
(malevolence) 907; conceive an aversion to.
excite hatred, provoke hatred &c. n.; be hateful &c. adj.; stink in
the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set
by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify &c. 830; roil.
Adj. hating &c. v.; abhorrent; averse from &c. (disliking) 867; set
against.
bitter &c. (acrimonious) 895 implacable &c. (revengeful) 919.
unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned, uncared for,
unendeared, un-valued; disliked &c. 867.
crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted.
obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive,
shocking; disgusting &c. (disagreeable) 830; reprehensible.
invidious, spiteful; malicious &c. 907.
insulting, irritating, provoking.
[Mutual hate] at daggers drawn; not on speaking terms &c. (enmity)
889; at loggerheads.
Phr. no love lost between.

#899. Favorite. -- N. favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel,
spoiled child, enfant gat; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's
eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata.
love, dear, darling, duck, honey, jewel; mopsey, mopper; sweetheart &c.
(love) 897.
general favorite, universal favorite; idol of the people.

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#900. Resentment. -- N. resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger,
wrath, indignation; exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation.
pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence,
bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall; heart-burning, heart-
swelling; rankling.
ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper; irascibility &c. 901;
ill blood &c. (hate) 898; revenge &c. 919.
excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker,
dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement, angry mood,
taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums.
burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence
&c. 173; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high
words.
scowl &c. 895; sulks &c. 901a.
[Cause of umbrage] affront, provocation, offense; indignity &c.
(insult) 929; grudge, crow to pluck, sore subject, casus belli; ill turn,
outrage.
Furies, Eumenides.
buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles.
V. resent,; take amiss, take ill, take to heart, take offense, take
umbrage, take huff, take exception; take in ill part, take in bad part,
take in dudgeon; ne pas entendre raillerie; breathe revenge, cut up rough.
fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a
passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials
of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.
pout, knit the brow, frown, scowl, lower, snarl, growl, gnarl, gnash,
snap; redden, color; look black, look black as thunder, look daggers; bite
one's thumb; show one's teeth, grind one's teeth; champ the bit, champ at
the bit.
chafe, mantle, fume, kindle, fly out, take fire; boil, boil over; boil
with indignation, boil with rage; rage, storm, foam, vent one's rage, vent
one's spleen; lose one's temper, stand on one's hind legs, stamp the foot,
stamp with rage, quiver with rage, swell with rage, foam with rage; burst
with anger; raise Cain.
have a fling at; bear malice &c. (revenge) 919.
cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give
umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle,
nettle, huff, pique; excite &c. 824; irritate, stir the blood, stir up
bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense,
inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen
the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick
in one's gizzard; rankle &e. 919; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on
the raw, strike on the raw.
put out of countenance, put out of humor; put one's monkey up, put
one's back up; raise one's gorge, raise one's dander, raise one's choler;
work up into a passion; make one's blood boil, make the ears tingle; throw,
into a ferment, madden, drive one mad; lash into fury, lash into madness;
fool to the top of one's bent; set by the ears.
bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
Adj. angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross &c. (irascible) 901;
Achillean; sulky, &c. 901a; bitter, virulent; acrimonious &c.
(discourteous) &c. 895; violent &c. 173.
warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming
at the mouth; convulsed with rage.
offended &c. v.; waxy, acharn; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt,
sore; set against.
fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate,
rabid, savage; relentless &c. 919.
flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a
fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a
way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.
Adv. angrily &c. adj.; in the height of passion; in the heat of
passion, in the heat of the moment.
Int. tantaene animis coelestibus irae [Vergil]! marry come up! zounds!
'sdeath!
Phr. one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up;
fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the
blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo [Vergil]; "
beware the fury of a patient man " [Dryden]; furor arma ministrat [Vergil];
ira furor brevis est [Horace]; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius;
"What, drunk with choler? " [Henry IV].

#901. Irascibility. -- N. irascibility,, irascibleness, temper;
crossness &c. adj.; susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability,
tartness, acerbity, protervity; pugnacity &c. (contentiousness) 720.
excitability &c. 825; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper,
irritable &c. adj. temper; genus irritabile, hot blood.
ill humor &c. (sullenness) 901a; asperity &c., churlishness &c.
(discourtesy) 895.
huff &c. (resentment) 900; a word and a blow.
Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago,
termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater &c.
(blusterer) 887; fury &c. (violent person) 173.
V. be irascible &c. adj.; have a temper &c. n., have a devil in one;
fire up &c. (be angry) 900.
Adj. irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible;
excitable &c. 825; thin-skinned &c. (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on
the fret.
hasty, ovrerhasty, quilck, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy;
like touchwood, like tinder; huffy,; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish,
peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in
quarrel " [As You Like It].
querulous, captious, moodish; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious;
pugnacious &c. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious; restiff &c.
(perverse) 901a; churlish &c. (discourteous) 895.
cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a
dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acaritre.
in a bad temper; sulky &c. 901a; angry &c. 900. resentful, resentive;
vindictive &c. 919.
Int. pish!
Phr. a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes; quamvis tegatur proditur
vultu furor [Seneca]; vino tortus et ira [Horace].

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#901a. Sullenness. -- N. sullenness &c. adj.; morosity, spleen;
churlishness &c. (discourtesy) 895; irascibility &c. 901.
moodiness &c. adj.; perversity; obstinacy &c. 606; torvity|,
spinosity; crabbedness &c. adj.
ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps,
dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl; grouch;
huff &c. (resentment) 900.
V. be sullen &c. adj.; sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout,
have a hangdog look, glout.
Adj. sullen, sulky; ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-
disposed; grouty [U. S.]; in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking
temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor; out of
temper, out of humor; knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed; sour, sour as a
crab; surly &c. (discourteous) 895.
moody,; spleenish, spleenly; splenetic, cankered.
cross, crossgrained; perverse, wayward, humorsome; restiff, restive;
cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason,
unaccommodating, rusty, froward; cussed [U. S.].
dogged &c. (stubborn) 606.
grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks &c. n.; out
of sorts; scowling, glowering, rowling; grouchy.
peevish &c. (irascible) 901.

#902. [Expression of affection or love.] Endearment. -- N. endearment,
caress; blandishment, blandiment|; panchement, fondling, billing and
cooing, dalliance; caressing.
embrace, salute, kiss, buss, smack, osculation, deosculation|; amorous
glances.
courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking;
serenading; caterwauling.
flirting &c. v.; flirtation, gallantry; coquetry.
true lover's knot, plighted love; love tale, love token, love letter;
billet-doux, valentine.
honeymoon; Strephon and Chloe.
V. caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the
cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle,
cocker, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness.
clasp, hug, cuddle; fold in one's arms, strain in one's arms; nestle,
nuzzle; embrace, kiss, buss, smack, blow a kiss; salute &c. (courtesy) 894;
fold to the heart, press to the bosom.
bill and coo, spoon, toy, dally, flirt, coquet; gallivant, galavant;
philander; make love; pay one's court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's
attentions to; serenade; court, woo; set one's cap at; be sweet upon, look
sweet upon; ogle, cast sheep's eyes upon; faire les yeux doux.
fall in love with, win the affections &c. (love) 897; die for.
propose; make an offer, have an offer; pop the question; plight one's
troth, plight one's faith.
Adj. caressing &c. v.; " sighing like furnace " [Shakespeare]; love-
sick, spoony.
caressed &c. V.
Phr. " faint heart neer won fair lady"; "kisses honeyed by oblivion "
[G. Eliot].

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#903. Marriage. -- N. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union,
intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii,
nuptial tie.
married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.
match; betrothment &c. (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials, Hymen,
bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar &c. v.; nuptial
benediction, epithalamium; sealing.
torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon.
bridesmaid, bridesman; bride, bridegroom. married man, married woman,
married couple; neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate;
husband, man, consort, baron; old man, good man; wife of one's bosom;
helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife,
goodwife.
feme, feme coverte; squaw, lady; matron, matronage, matronhood; man
and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife.
monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy; mormonism;
levirate; spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism; polyandrism; Turk,
bluebeard.
unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-
assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de convenance.
marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial
bureau; schatchen.
V. marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go
off, pair off; wed, espouse, lead to the hymeneal altar, take "for better
for worse," give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon.
marry, join, handfast; couple &c. (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot;
give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c.
(promise) 768; publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church.
Adj. married &c. v.; one, one bone and one flesh. marriageable,
nubile.
engaged, betrothed, affianced.
matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial, hymeneal,
spousal, bridal.
Phr. the gray mare the better horse; " a world-without-end bargain "
[Love's Labor's Lost]; "marriages are made in Heaven " [Tennyson]; " render
me worthy of this noble wife [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere nube
pari [Ovid].

#904. Celibacy. -- N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness;
bachelorhood, bachelorship; misogamy, misogyny.
virginity, pucelage; maidenhood, maidenhead.
unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor; misogamist,
misogynist; monogamist; monk.
unmarried woman, spinster; maid, maiden;,virgin, feme sole, old maid;
bachelor girl, girl-bachelor; nun.
V. live single.
Adj. unmarried, unwedded; wifeless, spouseless; single.

#905. Divorce. -- N. divorce, divorcement; separation; judicial
separation, separate maintenance; separatio a mens et thoro, separatio a
vinculo matrimonii.
widowhood, viduity, weeds.
widow, widower; relict; dowager; divoce; cuckold; grass widow, grass
widower.
V. live separate; separate, divorce, disespouse, put away; wear the
horns.

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2. DIFFUSIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS

#906. Benevolence. -- N. benevolence, Christian charity; God's love,
God's grace; good will; philanthropy &c. 910; unselfishness &c. 942.
good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness &c. adj.;
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 &c. 897;
friendship &c. 888.
toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy &c. (pity) 914.
charitableness &c. adj.; 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, bon enfant; altruist.
V. be benevolent &c. adj.; 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, feel for;
fraternize &c. (be friendly) 888.
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 &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; sympathizing, sympathetic;
complaisant &c. (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned.
fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal,
fraternal; sororal; 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; " kind words are more
than coronets " [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay ma$ana; " the social
smile, the sympathetic tear " [Gray].