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Beneficient

Beneficient \Ben`e*fi"cient\, a. Beneficent. [Obs.]

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beneficient

a. beneficent.

Usage examples of "beneficient".

She asked him, among other things, to invite the minister to the house some evening so that Uncle Ned might have the opportunity of falling under his beneficient influence.

He was neither an optimist nor a pessimist, any more than one can say that the ocean is beneficient or malevolent.

No power other than that which had bestowed the breath of life could subdue the beneficient mania that exalted his soul.

Nature in one of her beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

I had taken it merely for security, of course, having no intention of using it against this mild and beneficient people who had done me no harm.

And the respect and affection he felt for Rush were abundantly apparent, even in the ways Adams would address him: "Honored and Learned Sir," "My dear Philosopher and Friend," "My Sensible and Humorous Friend," "Learned, Ingenious, Benevolent, Beneficient Old Friend of 1774," "My Dear Old Friend.