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benefactor
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Late Latin benefactor , from Latin phrase bene facere , from bene "well" (see bene- ) + facere "to do" (see factitious ). Translated in Old English as wel-doend .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES anonymous donor/benefactor ▪ the anonymous donor of a large sum of money COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE anonymous ▪ A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in. generous ...
Usage examples of benefactor.
So would Hopkins, the benefactor, Honorius the afrit, Mandrake himself.
Ray had contacted Chief George Ayers and told him that an anonymous benefactor had donated a drug dog earmarked for Clarkston.
I expressed my gratitude, and begged him to be my true benefactor in a different manner--namely, by giving me a few good letters of introduction for Rome, a favour which he granted at once.
She came up with her daughter, a handsome, tempting blonde, who insisted upon kissing the hands of her benefactors.
The plain fact is that the individual in freely and energetically pursuing his own private purposes has not been the inevitable public benefactor assumed by the traditional American interpretation of democracy.
And in this manner I atoned for all I had done, for, far from deceiving the worthy man, I became his benefactor by guarding against the deceit of some cheat who would have cared for his money more than for his daughter.
I look upon the inventor as a benefactor, for if my wretched hump-back had provided himself with such a sheath he would not have exposed me to the danger of losing my honour and my life.
As he had spoken about me, she had not been able to resist the pleasure of telling him that I was her sole benefactor, at which, so far from being offended, he seemed to trust in her more than ever.
The worthy man embraced me again and again, calling me his benefactor, and saying that I had done more for his daughter than he would have done himself, which in a sense was perhaps true.
In the East, Licinius and Maximin honored with more real consideration their benefactor Galerius.
He then summoned up a hackney, and put Felix into it, directing the jarvey to drive him to Upper Wimpole Street, and at the same time bestowing a guinea upon Felix: largesse so handsome as to deprive the recipient of all power of speech until the jarvey had whipped up his horse, and to make it necessary for him to lean perilously out of the window of the hack to shout his thanks to his benefactor.
When Madame sat to piquet, Sarah hinted to John Kerseymere that he should counsel Lady Varington upon the selection of a horse, and saw with satisfaction that young lady turn her doelike eyes up to her newfound benefactor most irresistibly.
Alacrity had paid him, passing his benefactor a hip flask of knurled silver.
The entrance lobby of Western Pediatric Medical Center was walled with marble slabs engraved with the names of long-dead benefactors.
Marcus, on the other hand, revered the character of his benefactor, loved him as a parent, obeyed him as his sovereign, and, after he was no more, regulated his own administration by the example and maxims of his predecessor.