beneficent
Example Sentences
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"Beneficent charitable donations always seem to come too little, too late."
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2021
Beneficent time-tested owners saw their steady profits eroding and sold their papers so that they might park their capital somewhere more rewarding.
From Time • Aug. 17, 2016
Beneficent fate "imposed on us the duty of proving what is the degree of self-government in which a society may venture to leave its individual members."
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneficent utilitarian though Owen D. Young may be, not even he is permitted to be an interlocking director.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneficent as talented, she instituted an academy of music for young maidens, wrote nine books of lyric verse, and many other compositions of great merit.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
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