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Definition of Beneficently
1. adv. In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
Definition of Beneficently
1. Adverb. In a beneficent manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beneficently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beneficently
Literary usage of Beneficently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History by JOHN. OWEN (1896)
"... clenched in impotent malice, to the ever-stirring, the beneficently creative
power. Better try thy hand at something else, thou wondrous son of Chaos. ..."
2. The Advantages and the Dangers of the American Scholar: A Discourse by Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1836)
"... and the hope of reaching by some new and short road those objects of human
desire which the Creator has not less beneficently than wisely decreed, ..."
3. Woman and War: From "Woman and Labor" by Olive Schreiner (1911)
"And our demand to-day is that natural conditions, inexorably, but beneficently,
may determine the labors of each individual, and not artificial restrictions ..."
4. Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in by United States Dept. of the Interior, United States General Land Office (1887)
"... land for speculative purposes, to the exclusion of that class of citizens for
whose benefit the mining laws were so carefully and beneficently framed. ..."
5. Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in by United States Dept. of the Interior, United States General Land Office (1887)
"... laud for speculative purposes, to the exclusion of that class of citizens for
whose benefit the mining laws were so carefully and beneficently framed. ..."
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