welfare

She respected, she esteemed, she was grateful to him, she felt a real interest in his welfare; and she only wanted to know how far she wished that welfare to depend upon herself, and how far it would be for the happiness of both that she should employ the power, which her fancy told her she still possessed, of bringing on the renewal of his addresses.

He had certainly formed such a plan; and without meaning that it should affect his endeavour to separate him from Miss Bennet, it is probable that it might add something to his lively concern for the welfare of his friend.

“I am Sir Henry’s friend, and his welfare is a very close concern of mine.

Nevertheless, the ethical foundation of even the most progressive zoological institutions remains fiercely contested by animal welfare advocates.