Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS VI SECTION III. 2. DIFFUSIVE SYMPATHETIC AFFECTIONS


906. Benevolence -- N. benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy &c 910; unselfishness &c 942.

907. Malevolence -- N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness † ; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity &c 889; hate &c 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense † ; maliciousness &c adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c 900.

908. Malediction -- N. malediction, malison † , curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration, anathema, ban, proscription, excommunication, commination † , thunders of the Vatican, fulmination, maranatha † ; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation.

909. Threat -- N. threat, menace; defiance &c 715; abuse, minacity † , intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination &c (curse) 908 [Obs.]; gathering clouds &c (warning) 668.

910. Philanthropy -- N. philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism universal benevolence; endaemonism † , deliciae humani generis [Lat.] ; cosmopolitanism utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, social science, sociology common weal; socialism, communism, Fourierism † , phalansterianism † , Saint Simonianism † .

911. Misanthropy -- N. misanthropy, incivism; egotism &c (selfishness) 943; moroseness &c 901.1; cynicism.

912. Benefactor -- N. benefactor, savior, good genius, tutelary saint, guardian angel, good Samaritan; pater patriae [Lat.] ; salt of the earth &c (good man);; 948; auxiliary &c 711.

913. [Maleficent being] Evil doer -- N. evil doer, evil worker; wrongdoer &c 949; mischief-maker, marplot; oppressor, tyrant; destroyer, Vandal; iconoclast † .