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Beneficent   /bˌɛnəfˈɪʃənt/   Listen
Beneficent

adjective
1.
Doing or producing good.
2.
Generous in assistance to the poor.  Synonyms: benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic.  "Eleemosynary relief" , "Philanthropic contributions"






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"Beneficent" Quotes from Famous Books



... the agricultural implements rest recumbent upon the ground; And suspend the musical instruments in peace neon the wall, For there's no more physical energy to be displayed by our Indigent Uncle Edward He has departed to that place set apart by a beneficent Providence for the reception of the better class ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

... honour. I had faith, hope, love. I believed blindly at such times that by some miracle, by some external circumstance, all this would suddenly open out, expand; that suddenly a vista of suitable activity—beneficent, good, and, above all, READY MADE (what sort of activity I had no idea, but the great thing was that it should be all ready for me)—would rise up before me—and I should come out into the light of day, almost riding a white horse and crowned with laurel. ...
— Notes from the Underground • Feodor Dostoevsky

... wine, was the son of Jupiter and Semele. He represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but its social and beneficent influences likewise; so that he is viewed as the promoter of civilization, and a lawgiver ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR

... affliction, and to share our social pleasures. Blessed be the Abbe de l'Epee, who, by uniting the science of gesture to the conventional signs of dactyology, has made the deaf hear and the dumb speak! This beneficent invention has made gesture in a twofold manner, ...
— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

... had been so commonly practised by rulers that they seemed to be appropriate attributes of every high authority, and the artists of those days saw no incongruity in supposing that a supremely powerful master, however beneficent he might be, would make the freest ...
— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton


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