Beneficently

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

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a. 1717. Parnell, Q. Anne’s Peace, in Posth. Wks. (1758), 262 (R.).

	All mortals once beneficently great,
	(As Fame reports) and rais’d in Heav’nly State.

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1797. Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav., III. lxxx. (ed. 2), 246. Airs beneficently tepid.

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1852. Hawthorne, Wonder-bk., Mirac. Pitcher. A spot on which Heaven had smiled so beneficently.

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1875. Farrar, Silence & V., i. 33. Pain comes … to warn us beneficently of our danger.

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