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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
benefaction
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gregory liked Guntram because of his benefactions to the Church and his regard for churchmen, although he does not hide his weaknesses.
▪ He also promised to promote her son, then studying at Cambridge, to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions.
▪ Much of the provision for the relief of the poor at this time was the benefactions of Londoners.
▪ There is an unquestioned element of benefaction in this plan.
▪ We decided that it would be wrong to make an exception even for such an exceptional benefaction.
▪ We have been very lucky to have two major benefactions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Benefaction

Benefaction \Ben`e*fac"tion\, n. [L. benefactio, fr. benefacere to do good to one; bene well + facere to do. See Benefit.]

  1. The act of conferring a benefit.
    --Johnson.

  2. A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

    Syn: Gift; present; gratuity; boon; alms.

Wiktionary
benefaction

n. 1 An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing. 2 An act of charity; almsgiving.

WordNet
benefaction

  1. n. a contribution of money or assistance

  2. an act intending or showing kindness and good will [syn: benevolence]

Usage examples of "benefaction".

The memorable benefaction of the year 508, which was a famine reinforced by a pestilence, swept away sixteen hundred millions of people in nine months.

A great benefaction conferred with your whole heart upon an ungrateful man -- with what immortal persistence and never-cooling energy do you repent of that!

In an instant life became an inexpressible benefaction, for it permitted me to realise I was beloved, - and death was dowered with a new horror - the fear that I should cease to know it.

Only Fortune Gave me this afternoon the benefaction Of your blue back, which I for love pursued, And in pursuing may have saved your life -- Also the world a pounding piece of news: Hamilton bites the dust of Washington, Or rather of his horse.

And Homais retired, declaring that he could not understand this obstinacy, this blindness in refusing the benefactions of science.

For an Adelaide University was in the air, and took form owing to the benefactions of Capt.

I will content myself with observing that if Madame de Maintenon conceived the first idea of it, it is the great benefactions of the monarch and the profound recognition of the nobility which have given stability and renown to this house.

Such benefactions as these compensate the temporary harm which Bonaparte and the Revolution did, and leave the world in debt to them for these great and permanent services to liberty, humanity, and progress.

Grandiose inscriptions were displayed all about to commemorate my benefactions, but my refusal to exempt the inhabitants from a tax which they were quite able to pay soon alienated that rabble from me.

Grandiose inscriptions were displayed all about to commemorate my benefactions, but my refusal to exempt the inhabitants from a tax which they were quite able to pay soon alienated that rabble from me.

I am afraid, little merit in these benefactions, there would, I must confess, be much pleasure in them to a good mind, if it was not abated by one consideration.

I believe, for men to ascribe the benefactions they receive to pure charity, when they can possibly impute them to any other motive.

Another lord presented Sejourne with a splendid doublet and Beran with a cloak and hood of soft wool, even though such benefactions were frowned upon by his almoner, who exhorted him to give to the poor and not to minstrels, jugglers, and flatterers.

The Cheyenne merging with the natural without despoiling its beauty and benefaction, the peaceful Vines "dreaming in the sun," the New Quaker emphasis on simplicity and truth and peacewere the three really all that different?

I should willingly engage the whole, if I did not apprehend, that my Benefaction might sometime be corrupted by the Ambition of those that might sollicit for it: as I observe it happens in a Variety of Places, where Masters are publickly supported.