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UK
/bˈɛnɪfˌɪsəns/
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[ US /bəˈnɛfəsəns/ ]
[ US /bəˈnɛfəsəns/ ]
NOUN
- doing good; feeling beneficent
- the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
How To Use beneficence In A Sentence
- Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- angelic beneficence
- It affects those who are the beneficiaries of the charity's functions, beneficence and bounty.
- The economic and social power of Church beneficence exposed the poverty of public provision for the poor.
- Some features of its make-up were evidences of his goodness and beneficence, while others displayed his displeasure.
- I owuld donate the whole amount of money to Orbis annoymously to support beneficence.
- As he passed along he would every now and then draw a maravedi out of his pocket and bestow it on a beggar, with an air of signal beneficence. Washington Irving
- Unless the real recipient of the foundation's beneficence is capitalism itself, which will now teach even poets a good lesson in the imperatives of market discipline? Poetry
- And may'st thou, stranger to ostentation, and superior to insolence, with true greatness of soul shine forth conspicuous only in beneficence! Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
- It affects those who are the beneficiaries of the charity's functions, beneficence and bounty.