beneficient

== English == === Etymology === Modification of beneficent after beneficial. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt/ Rhymes: -ɪʃənt === Adjective === beneficient (comparative more beneficient, superlative most beneficient) (sometimes proscribed) beneficent 1929, Time, 25 March, 1929, "Apple Salt," [1] Last week. Dr. John Christian Krantz Jr., chemist and pharmacist at Johns Hopkins, announced that that laboratory of many a beneficient drug had created a salt substitute, which has proved palatable during a year's tests. 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Writers in Politics: Essays, London: Heinemann, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 47, And not the least, they smashed the racialist view of peasants as uncultured recipients of cultures from beneficient foreigners. ==== Translations ====