[每日] beneficence (n) 慈善
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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