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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. doing or producing good;
- Example: "the most beneficent regime in history"

2. generous in assistance to the poor;
- Example: "a benevolent contributor"
- Example: "eleemosynary relief"
- Example: "philanthropic contributions"
[syn: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Beneficent \Be*nef`i*cent\, a.
   Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and
   charity; characterized by beneficence.
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         The beneficent fruits of Christianity.   --Prescott.
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   Syn: See Benevolent.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

beneficent
    adj 1: doing or producing good; "the most beneficent regime in
           history" [ant: maleficent]
    2: generous in assistance to the poor; "a benevolent
       contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic
       contributions" [syn: beneficent, benevolent,
       eleemosynary, philanthropic]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "beneficent":
   almsgiving, altruistic, amicable, benevolent, benign, benignant,
   bighearted, charitable, cooperative, eleemosynary, favorable,
   freehearted, friendly, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, kind,
   kindly, kindly-disposed, largehearted, neighborly, philanthropic,
   propitious, welfare, welfare statist, welfarist, well-affected,
   well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant