Word Meanings - BENEFICENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Syn. -- See Benevolence.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BENEFICENCE)

• Benevolence
• Kindness
• goodwill
• charity
• philanthropy
• kindliness
• kind-heartedness
• benignity
• beneficence
• liberality

Related words: (words related to BENEFICENCE)

• KINDNESS
  1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts
• KIND-HEARTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
• CHARITY
  Now abideth faith, hope, charity, three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1. Cor. xiii. 13. They, at least, are little to be envied, in whose hearts the great charities . . . lie dead. Ruskin. With malice towards none, with charity for all.
• BENEVOLENCE
  1. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers. 2. An act of kindness; good done; charity given. 3. A species
• BENEFICENCE
  The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Syn. -- See Benevolence.
• KINDLINESS
  1. Natural inclination; natural course. Milton. 2. The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.
• PHILANTHROPY
  Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; -- opposed to misanthropy. Jer. Taylor.
• LIBERALITY
  1. The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham. 2. A gift; a gratuity;
• BENIGNITY
  1. The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." Sir W. Scott. 2. Mildness; gentleness. The benignity or inclemency of the season. Spectator. 3. Salubrity; wholesome quality. Wiseman.
• APHILANTHROPY
  Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe.
• UNCHARITY
  Uncharitableness. Tennyson. 'T were much uncharity in you. J. Webster.
• LOVING-KINDNESS
  Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.
• INCHARITY
  Want of charity. Evelyn.
• UNBENEVOLENCE
  Absence or want of benevolence; ill will.
• THEOPHILANTHROPY
  Theophilanthropism. Macaulay.
• SELF-CHARITY
  Self-love. Shak.
• ILLIBERALITY
  The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.
• DISKINDNESS
  Unkindness; disservice. A. Tucker.
• UNKINDLINESS
  Unkindness. Tennyson.