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• a  doing or producing good
  the most beneficent regime in history
• s  generous in assistance to the poor

• He flitted about China building deluxe villas for his family, blowing money at chic nightclubs, and playing the beneficent philanthropist.
• That concept of the beneficent, omnipotent will of God and the need to always submit to it, whether we like it or not, is not new.
• Yet it was Anne's that finally prevailed a beneficent and complicated work outlasting a simple and evil one and that secured to the world's embrace the second most famous .

• benevolent
• eleemosynary
• philanthropic

• maleficent

News & Articles

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• Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra tells magical tales at Concerts on the Square's 2013 kickoff
  Despite the recent storms, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra's first Concerts on the Square event of 2013 came off beautifully. We could not have had more lovely twilight sun or more comfortable temperatures on Wednesday. Likewise beneficent was the program, built around a theme of fairy tales and fables.
  June 27, 2013 - Isthmus

Quotes

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• Oliver Sacks in Orlando Sentinel
  It should be an exciting and unusual event,Sacks said in an interview this week. "I will talk about the therapeutic and beneficent power of music as a physician, and then their wonderful choir will perform. ...... And the audience will...
• Abraham Lincoln in renewamerica.us
  Lincoln asked Americans to set aside time "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
• George Washington in The Conservative Voice
  Accordingly, Washington designated a day for devotion to God, acknowledged God as "that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be," and called upon all Americans to "unite in...