Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly, so appealingly, and with these measureless love in her text and her previous trembling voice, that he was weltering in tears again, very long just before she was through. a : unselfish loyal and benevolent (see benevolent feeling 1a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yoEpl90KUg&t=10s