Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Beneficence

Beneficence ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin beneficentia, from beneficus: compare French 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