beneficence Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun doing good; feeling beneficent
  2. noun the quality of being kind or helpful or generous

WordNet

Be*nef"i*cence noun
Etymology
L. beneficentia, fr. beneficus: cf. F. bénéficence. See Benefice.
Definitions
  1. The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
    And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.
    Syn. -- See Benevolence.

Webster 1913