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Beneficence

Beneficence Meaning & Definition
Beneficence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beneficence?

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

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See Also | benevolence | free grace | good | goodness | grace | grace of God

Beneficence In Webster's Dictionary

\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}.

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