beneficence

Example Sentences

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For the moral physician, beneficence must always exceed maleficence.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024

This is not, however, the result of cultural beneficence.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

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

Principle of beneficence: The principle of beneficence proposes that we should act in ways that benefit others or that are for the good of others.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

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