English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "weldadigheid" is die daad om goed te doen of handelinge uit te voer wat die welsyn van ander bevorder. Dit word dikwels gebruik in die konteks van etiese of morele beginsels, veral in die velde van medisyne, maatskaplike werk en ander helpende beroepe, om te verwys na die verpligting om op te tree in die beste belang van diegene wat gedien word. Die term kan ook wyer gebruik word om enige aksie of gedrag te beskryf wat bedoel is om ander te bevoordeel of by te dra tot hul welstand.

Sentence Examples

  1. As if the sun should stop when he had kindled his fires up to the splendor of a moon or a star of the sixth magnitude, and go about like a Robin Goodfellow, peeping in at every cottage window, inspiring lunatics, and tainting meats, and making darkness visible, instead of steadily increasing his genial heat and beneficence till he is of such brightness that no mortal can look him in the face, and then, and in the mean while too, going about the world in his own orbit, doing it good, or rather, as a truer philosophy has discovered, the world going about him getting good.