Benevolent person put in the shade (6)
I believe the answer is:
humane
'benevolent' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'person put in the shade' is the wordplay.
'person' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of person).
'put in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the shade' becomes 'hue' (I've seen this before**).
'man' put inside 'hue' is 'HUMANE'.
(Other definitions for humane that I've seen before include "Kind - compassionate" , "Compassionate, merciful" , "Kind and liberal" , "Kindly and compassionate" , "Kind and sympathetic" .)