Beneficence
[bɪ'nefɪsəns]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous.
(noun.) doing good; feeling beneficent.
Inputed by Delia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Charity, bounty, liberality, generosity, alms-giving, active goodness, kind action, doing of good.
Editor: Timmy
Definition
n. active goodness: kindness: charity: a beneficent gift.—n. Benefic′ency (obs.).—adjs. Benef′icent; Beneficen′tial.—adv. Benef′icently.
Edited by Bryan
Examples
- From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Raymond recognized her; and his manner changed from polite beneficence to the warmest protestations of kindness and sympathy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her beneficence was the familiar topic of the poor in Briarfield. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This was both prayer and praise, and no more lofty recognition of the divine power and beneficence could have been made. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That was the nauseating method of nineteenth century economists when they tried to identify the brutal practices of capitalism with the beneficence of nature and the Will of God. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Vicky