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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

beneficentia

, fr.

beneficus

: cf. F.

bénéficence

. See

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

Noun.

[L.beneficentia, from the participle of benefacio.] The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity.