beneficence
Example Sentences
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All that brainpower would have been for naught, however, save for the beneficence of Uncle Sam.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2025
For the moral physician, beneficence must always exceed maleficence.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024
Schneider dispensed deadpan punch lines, Pierson spoke with hippie beneficence and Wilson talked movingly about the death of her brother, Ricky.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022
This beneficence was a type of "apology" for his grotesque act of hubris and ego: he and most others of his class have no sincere sense of social obligation.
From Salon • Jul. 26, 2021
In their beneficence they allowed a certain amount of amateur smuggling to go on—the day trips to Canada, the fishing boats out for a midnight cruise.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing beneficence
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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The Federalist Papers, No. 14 by James Madison
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