Hypertext Webster Gateway: "beneficence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Beneficence \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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
beneficence
n 1: doing good; feeling beneficent [ant: {maleficence}]
2: the quality of being kind or helpful or generous [ant: {maleficence}]
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