Both Uses of
beneficent
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- However, Tess became humanely beneficent towards the small ones, and to help them as much as possible she used, as soon as she left school, to lend a hand at haymaking or harvesting on neighbouring farms; or, by preference, at milking or butter-making processes, which she had learnt when her father had owned cows; and being deft-fingered it was a kind of work in which she excelled.†
Chpt 1
- Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
doing or producing good -- especially generous in assistance to the poor