Be*nef"i*cence (?), n. [L.
beneficentia, fr. beneficus: cf. F.
bénéficence. See Benefice.] The practice
of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from
purity and goodness.
And whose beneficence no charge exhausts.
Cowper.
Syn. -- See Benevolence.