Both Uses of
beneficent
in
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- She was not much given to reclining in the hammock, and when she did so it was with no cat-like suggestion of voluptuous ease, but with a beneficent repose which seemed to invade her whole body.†
Chpt 10 *
- The claret was warm and the champagne was cold, and under their beneficent influence the threatened unpleasantness melted and vanished with the fumes of the wine.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
doing or producing good -- especially generous in assistance to the poor