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Word Meanings - BENEFICENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.

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  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • INEXACT
    Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
  • BENEFICENT
    , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
  • LIBERALIZE
    To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • CHARITABLENESS
    The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • BENEVOLENT
    Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent.
  • BENEFICENTLY
    In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
  • FORGIVER
    One who forgives. Johnson.
  • MERCIFUL
    1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • APPROPRIATE
    Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
  • LIBERALISTIC
    Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
  • WITHDRAW
    1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
  • WITHDRAWER
    One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
  • UNPLACABLE
    Implacable.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • INCIVIL
    Uncivil; rude. Shak.
  • DISGRACIOUS
    Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
  • UNCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
  • ILLIBERALNESS
    The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.

 

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