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beneficially en · ADV

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Etymology

Etymology tree English beneficial Middle English -ly English -ly English beneficially From beneficial + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a beneficial manner
   • He would skip pleasantly but beneficially through Royce, then pick up whatever ideas he might find in all these other philosophers he had heard mentioned: James and Kant and Bergson and who was that fellow with the funny name—Spinoza? 1927, Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Chapter 20:
   • [I]n that some form of duty and sacrifice (here, participation in the 1848 Revolution and a recognition of his lordly duty) is not only beneficially character-forming but also leads ultimately to a condition which is 'sublime'. 2006, Steve Wharton, Screening Reality, page 104:

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