Obs. [ad. L. beneficentia: see prec. and -ENCY.] The quality of being beneficent; beneficence.
1576. Woolton, Chr. Manual, 70. The sixth [commandment] commandeth justice and judgment … beneficency and innocency.
1662. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 310. Queen’s College in Oxford, owing the glazing of many windows therein to his beneficency.
1682. Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor. (1716), 105. Such tempers … make beneficency cool unto acts of obligation.
