Wel"fare` (?), n. [Well + fare to go, to proceed, to happen.]
Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
How to study for the people's welfare.
Shak.
In whose deep eyes
Men read the welfare of the times to come.
Emerson.
© Webster 1913.