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Beneficently

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be·nef·i·cent  (b-nf-snt)
adj.
1. Characterized by or performing acts of kindness or charity.
2. Producing benefit; beneficial.
[Probably from beneficenceon the model of such pairs as benevolent, benevolence.]
be·nefi·cent·ly adv.
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This I say, Sancho, that thou attribute not the favour thou hast received to thine own merits, but give thanks to heaven that disposes matters beneficently, and secondly thanks to the great power the profession of knight-errantry contains in itself.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
Soothingly, like the gentle rustling of the leaves; and genially, like the ripening weather; and radiantly and beneficently, like the sunshine, he went on.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
Dorothea had little vanity, but she had the ardent woman's need to rule beneficently by making the joy of another soul.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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