beneficence
Example Sentences
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For the moral physician, beneficence must always exceed maleficence.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024
This is not, however, the result of cultural beneficence.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023
There are four main ethical principles that can guide our thinking whenever faced with ethical issues in physician and patient or researcher and participant relationships, namely the principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Medieval and Renaissance painters depicted unicorns nestled in the Virgin Mary’s lap — a symbol of purity and beneficence.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021
In their beneficence they allowed a certain amount of amateur smuggling to go on—the day trips to Canada, the fishing boats out for a midnight cruise.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing beneficence
Take the Bad with the Good: Bene and Mal
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Vocabulary from "John L. O'Sullivan on 'Manifest Destiny' " from 1839
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The Federalist Papers, No. 14 by James Madison
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