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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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