Beneficent
adjective
Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity.
She is known for her beneficent deeds in the community.
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Formal
adjective
Resulting in good; beneficial.
His invention had a beneficent impact on society.
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Academic
adjective
Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity.
She is known for her beneficent deeds in the community.
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Resulting in good; beneficial.
His invention had a beneficent impact on society.
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Charitable Actions
Often used when someone helps others out of kindness, without seeking personal gain.
The beneficent volunteer spent weekends building homes for the homeless.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Reputation
Reflects positively on someone's character when used to describe their behavior.
The beneficent philanthropist was admired for his commitment to funding local schools.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Reciprocal
Implies generosity without expecting anything in return, not even gratitude.
Her beneficent donation to the clinic was made anonymously.
Compare with
altruisticbenevolentcharitablecompassionategeneroushelpfulmagnanimousphilanthropic
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you know the degree to which the health care system has proven to be inadequate we don't even know how many beds we have we don't know how many ventilators we have and that is I think it's a serious blow to America's image because people would think that the United States might not be you know the most beneficent
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How the coronavirus...
you know the degree to which the health care system has proven to be inadequate we don't even know how many beds we have we don't know how many ventilators we have and that is I think it's a serious blow to America's image because people would think that the United States might not be you know the most beneficent
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Ambrose Burnside
American Politician
If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
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Annie Besant
English Philosopher
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
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William Graham Sumner
American Businessman
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
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Louis Sullivan
American Architect
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
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Rebecca Harding Davis
American Author
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
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Sylvia Plath
American Poet
Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.
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Louis D. Brandeis
American Judge
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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Ambrose Burnside
American Politician
If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.
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Bob Dylan
American Musician
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
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Annie Besant
English Philosopher
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
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William Graham Sumner
American Businessman
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
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Charles Darwin
English Scientist
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
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Louis Sullivan
American Architect
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
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Rebecca Harding Davis
American Author
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
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Sylvia Plath
American Poet
Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.
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Louis D. Brandeis
American Judge
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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