Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Well pleased; satisfied.
  • noun Good pleasure; will; choice.

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Examples

  • That which is the cause of my election, I hold to be the cause of my salvation, which was the mercy and beneplacit of God, before I was, or the foundation of the world.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • Election, I hold to be the cause of my Salvation, which was the mercy and beneplacit [136] of God, before I was, or the foundation of the World.

    Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

  • That which is the cause of my election I hold to be the cause of my salvation, which was the mercy and _beneplacit_ of God, before I was, or the foundation of the world.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • That which is the cause of my election, I hold to be the cause of my salvation, which was the mercy and beneplacit of God, before I was, or the foundation of the world.

    Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

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