beneficent

[US]/bɪˈnefɪsnt/
[UK]/bɪˈnefɪsnt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. characterized by doing good; kind and generous.

Phrases & Collocations

beneficent ruler

Real-world Examples

Beneficent as hell, but I'll pass.

Source: Billions Season 1

In the name of God, the most merciful, the most beneficent.

Source: Complete English Speech Collection

I sneered at the idea of a beneficent God who had created man in His own likeness.

Source: The virtues of human nature.

It warranted them in drawing together for the protection of an institution so necessary, so inevitable, so beneficent.

Source: American history

" I mean: that he's an inconscient instrument of goodness, as it were? A — a sort of blindly beneficent force" ?

Source: People and Ghosts (Part 2)

They will get on together rarely; she as his ever beneficent mother; he as her mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minister and interpreter.

Source: Southwest Associated University English Textbook

This beneficent spring, after having satisfied our thirst on the road, would now be my guide among the windings of the terrestrial crust.

Source: The Journey to the Heart of the Earth

Phoebe, it is probable, had but a very imperfect comprehension of the character over which she had thrown so beneficent a spell. Nor was it necessary.

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 1)

This is done so ably, and is, on the whole, such a beneficent work, that on the balance great praise is due to those who accomplish it.

Source: Southwest Associated University English Textbook

He had said to himself that the only winning he cared for must be attained by a conscious process of high, difficult combination tending towards a beneficent result.

Source: Middlemarch (Part Five)

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