beneficence
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Synonyms
alms, benefaction, charity, contribution, donation, philanthropy
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Ultimately, Lydgate succumbs to the jealousy of his rivals and to the perfidy of his patron, while the widowed Dorothea must sacrifice the goal of beneficence for the sake of finding happiness with a new husband. — Leslie Lenkowsky, WSJ, "Five Best: Leslie Lenkowsky on Novels About Philanthropy," 7 Dec. 2018 What Facebook saw as beneficence, Indians saw as neocolonialism. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, "The Global Tech Backlash Is Just Beginning," 25 Oct. 2018 Etsy One of the marvels of the modern day gift market is the way that its journals, magnets, and coffee mugs swing wildly between smiling beneficence and saucy declarations of misanthropy. — Eliza Brooke, Vox, "We buy each other gifts with misanthropic slogans to forge a common bond," 9 Nov. 2018 But his faith in his country’s beneficence remains undimmed. — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, "In ‘The Restless Wave,’ John McCain Says America Is Still Exceptional," 16 May 2018 Rarely noted is the longstanding Israeli beneficence toward Palestinians, when not under attack. — WSJ, "Younger Evangelicals on Israel and Palestine," 11 June 2018 Americans have long had a love-hate relationship with Europe and foreigners in general, along with a strong current of belief that others have taken advantage of U.S. beneficence, sentiments that Trump has been more than willing to exploit. — Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, "In Trump, some see the end of the world order," 8 June 2018 Better still would be the inculcation into all our moral considerations of beneficence as an internal good rather than an ethical calculation. — Michael Shermer, Scientific American, "Does the Philosophy of “the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number” Have Any Merit?," 1 May 2018 Almost five years ago, at a more obscure institution of higher learning, Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, China’s president, Xi Jinping, outlined his own vision of economic beneficence. — The Economist, "Will China’s Belt and Road Initiative outdo the Marshall Plan?," 8 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'beneficence.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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