beneficence

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
His heart is naturally beneficent, and his beneficence is the gift of God for the most excellent purposes, as I have often freely told him.

View all »
Definitions (7)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun The state or quality of being kind, charitable, or beneficial.
  2. noun A charitable act or gift.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • It was the unconcealable magnitude of her beneficence, and its wise quality, which made her a second time the theme of English conversation in all honest households within the four seas. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
  • He first gives the warning in general terms in verse 1, and then flashes its light into three dark corners, and shows how hankering after men's praise corrupts the beneficence which is our duty to our neighbour, the devotion which is our duty to God, and the abstinence which is our duty to ourselves. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
  • Boston: Ticknor and Fields If pure benevolence was ever organized and utilized into beneficence, the name of the institution is the Sanitary Commission. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
  • His heart is naturally beneficent, and his beneficence is the gift of God for the most excellent purposes, as I have often freely told him. —  Pamela, Volume II
  • He uses the terms free and voluntary only with reference to spontaneous beneficence, as opposed to the compulsion of the law III.--As regards Happiness, or the Summum Bonum, he presents his scientific classification of Pleasures and Pains, without, however, indicating any plan of life, for attaining the one and avoiding the other in the best manner. —  Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
 

Tags

beneficence hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 130 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin beneficentia, from beneficus, beneficent-, benefic; see benefic.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Latin beneficentia, from beneficen(t-)s, beneficent: see beneficent.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/bəˈnɛfɪsəns/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

chagrin · congeners · chopping · discern · Either

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

ultimatum · pew · deadpool · sad panda · nom nom nom