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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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