As though that name of beneuolence had signified, that euerie man should paie, not what himselfe of his owne good will list to grant, but what the king of his good will list to take.
And so taketh sai[n]t Nazianzene beneuolence in his sayd ora- cion for sainct Basile.
Beneuolence is the place whereby the herer is made willyng to here vs / and it is conteyned in the thynge that we speke of / in them whom we speke to / & in our owne persone.
The easyest and moost vsed place of beneuolence consysteth in the offyce or duety of the person / whan we shew that it is our duety to do that we be about.
We may also getbeneuolence by reason of them / whome we make our oracion of: As yf we saye that we can neuer prayse hym to hyghly / but y^t he is worthy moch more laude and prayse.
A lyke example ofbeneuolence taken out of the place of office or dutie / is in the oracyon that Tully made for the Poete Archias / whiche begynneth thus.
The maner is also to get vs beneuolence in the preface of our oracion / by pynchyng and blamyng of our aduersarie.
Of beneuolence which ech man beareth towards vs, the chiefest duty is to giue most to him, of whom wee be most beloued.
The same I offer now not with such vsury and gayne as your beneuolence and syngular bounty, by long forbearing hath deserued, but with such affected will and desyre of recompence, as any man alyue can owe to so rare a friend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beneuolence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
