BENEFICENT in a Sentence

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1. I consult them when doubtful, and if I ever do any good, it is due to their beneficent counsels.
2. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.
3. Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
4. Faria, the beneficent and cheerful companion, with whom he was accustomed to live so intimately, no longer breathed.
5. He thought that, as in Africa he had to put on a burnoose and sit in a mosque, so in Moscow he must be beneficent like the Tsars.

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 Meanings and Examples of BENEFICENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
beneficent
 a.  doing or producing good
 a.  generous in assistance to the poor
Classic Sentence:
1  Faria, the beneficent and cheerful companion, with whom he was accustomed to live so intimately, no longer breathed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.
2  I consult them when doubtful, and if I ever do any good, it is due to their beneficent counsels.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 112. The Departure.
3  Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  But not to speak of her alone, that early and terrible death has had the most beneficent influence on me and on my brother in spite of all our grief.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
6  He thought that, as in Africa he had to put on a burnoose and sit in a mosque, so in Moscow he must be beneficent like the Tsars.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
7  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.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
8  But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
9  With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only another sort of benevolence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
10  Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
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