Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Beneficence.
- noun The quality of being beneficial; usefulness; profitableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
beneficial .
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Examples
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He will hold up to view the nature and extent of the requirements He made of us, their reasonableness and beneficialness we shall all acknowledge.
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Suppose, now, we made the willingness of a parent to give up his or her children the measure of his beneficialness to them.
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I love the way the press release for the map describes the beneficialness of indie booksellers in London: they "sustain local interests and communities," "develop alternative ways for audiences to participate in a range of cultural activities," and "fill the gaps in the high street."
The New Yorker Macy Halford 2011
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