Benevolence

1. n. A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.
2. n. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
3. n. An act of kindness; good done; charity given.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.