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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Beneficence

/bən-ĕf'-əs-əns/ · Be·nef·i·cence · IPA /bəˈnɛ.fə.sən(t)s/
01 n. The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
  1. 1.
    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.