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–noun

1.	the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity.

2.	a beneficent act or gift; benefaction.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME < L beneficentia; see benefic, -ence

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n.

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

[Latin beneficentia, from beneficus, beneficent-, benefic; see benefic.]

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beneficence
noun
1.	doing good; feeling beneficent [ant: maleficence]
2.	the quality of being kind or helpful or generous [ant: balefulness]

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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.

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