Meaning of BENEFICENCE
| Pronunciation: | | bu'nefisuns
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- [n] the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
- [n] doing good; feeling beneficent
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| | Antonyms: | | balefulness, maleficence, maleficence, mischief | | |
| | See Also: | | benevolence, free grace, good, goodness, grace, grace of God | |
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| | 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}.
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| | Related Terms: | | agape, alms, altruism, auspiciousness, benefaction, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, benignancy, benignity, Benthamism, bigheartedness, BOMFOG, brightness, brotherly love, caritas, charitableness, charity, cheerfulness, cheeriness, Christian charity, Christian love, contribution, do-goodism, favorableness, flower power, fortunateness, generosity, giving, good auspices, good omen, goodwill, grace, greatheartedness, humanitarianism, largeheartedness, love, love of mankind, luckiness, offering, philanthropism, philanthropy, propitiousness, prosperousness, utilitarianism, welfarism, well-disposedness |
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