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Thesaurus: beneficence
The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
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- n. The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
- n. doing good; feeling beneficent
- n. the quality of being kind or helpful or generous
- 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.
- The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, orcharity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.
- n:100 n. doing good; feeling beneficent n. the quality of being kind or helpful or generous