Both Uses of
beneficent
in
The House of Mirth
- Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- —when she had visited the Girls' Club with Gerty Farish, she had felt an enlightened interest in the working-classes; but that was because she looked down on them from above, from the happy altitude of her grace and her beneficence.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(beneficent) doing or producing good -- especially generous in assistance to the poor