| 单词 | beneficence |
| 释义 | beneficence (once / 3648 pages) n If you show someone kindness or generosity, that's beneficence like when you shovel a neighbor's sidewalk or mowing the lawn just to help out, no strings attached. Beneficence comes from the Latin word benefactum, meaning "good deed." That's exactly what beneficence is — helping someone just because you care, not because you want to be praised for being nice. Giving your time, skills, or even a donation of money or items shows beneficence. This word can also describe the character of a person who is helpful, caring, and compassionate. WORD FAMILYbeneficence: beneficences+/beneficent: beneficence, beneficently/beneficial: beneficially/benefit: beneficent, beneficial, benefited, benefiting, benefits, benefitted, benefitting USAGE EXAMPLESWhat feckless surge of beneficence inspired most of the D.C. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) Riverside Park this far north is slowly feeling the beneficence of city dollars, as playgrounds and paths are rehabilitated. New York Times(Sep 23, 2016) “By the People: Designing a Better America,” opening on Friday at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, taps into a rich vein of entrepreneurial beneficence. New York Times(Sep 29, 2016) 1n the quality of being kind or helpful or generous Ant|Hypo|Hyper balefulness, maleficence, mischief the quality or nature of being harmful or evil free grace, grace, grace of God (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God good, goodness moral excellence or admirableness 2n doing good; feeling beneficent Ant|Hyper maleficence doing or causing evil benevolence disposition to do good |
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