beneficent
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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, because it was formed for that purpose; tightwad, because the money it will disburse will not be its own but rather money belonging to the participating members.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this class of argument belong Locke's "proof" of the existence of God, and Paley's of a Beneficent Designer.
From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
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