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† beˈneficency Obs.
[ad. L. beneficentia: see prec. and -ency.]
The quality of being beneficent; beneficence.
1576J. Woolton Chr. Manual 70 The sixth [commandment] commandeth justice and judgment..beneficency and innocency. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 310 Queen's College in Oxford, owing the glazing of many windows therein to his beneficency. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. (1716) 105 Such tempers..make beneficency cool unto acts of obligation. |