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Definition
doing or producing good — especially generous in assistance to the poor
- 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.Chapter 10 (85% in)
- 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.Chapter 23 (74% in)
There are no more uses of "beneficent" in The Awakening.
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