Definitions for: Beneficence


[n] the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
[n] doing good; feeling beneficent



Webster (1913) Definition: Be*nef"i*cence, n. [L. beneficentia, fr.
beneficus: cf. F. b['e]n['e]ficence. See Benefice.]
The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or
charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. --Cowper.

Syn: See Benevolence.

Antonyms: balefulness, maleficence, maleficence, mischief

See Also: benevolence, free grace, good, goodness, grace, grace of God

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