Word of the Day (Sunday September 21, 2008) beneficence \buh-NEFF-i-suhns\, noun: Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/d54Px 1. The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity. 2. A charitable gift or act. Lord Jeffrey told Dickens that it [A Christmas Carol] had "prompted more positive acts of beneficence than can be traced to all the pulpits and confessionals in Christendom since Christmas 1842." -- Roger Highfield, The Physics of Christmas From my grandfather Verus I learned good morals and the government of my temper. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character. From my mother, piety and beneficence and abstinence. -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations She had disseminated around her what seemed an involuntary aura of beneficence and goodwill. -- John Bayley, Elegy for Iris Beneficence is from Latin beneficentia, from beneficus, kind, generous, obliging, from bene, well (from bonus, good) + facere, to do. One who, or that which, is characterized by beneficence is beneficent. --

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