Benefaction
[,benɪ'fækʃ(ə)n] or [,bɛnɪ'fækʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of conferring a benefit.
(n.) A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.
Typist: Maura
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gift, donation, gratuity, grant, offering, contribution, boon, present, alms, charity.
Typed by Judy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grant, gratuity, boon, donation, aims, present, gift, endowment, bequest,favor, presentation
ANT:Deprivation, reservation, disfavor, presumption, confiscation, disendowment
Checker: Paulette
Definition
n. the act of doing good: a good deed done or benefit conferred: a grant or endowment.—n. Benefac′tor one who gives a benefit to another esp. one who leaves a legacy to some charitable or religious institution a patron:—fem. Benefac′tress.—adj. Benefac′tory.
Typed by Justine
Examples
- Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It did not call for this as a pious benefaction; it demanded it as a right. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This Atticus had an immense fortune, and he amused himself by huge architectural benefactions to various cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He made vast benefactions to the Buddhist teaching orders, and tried to stimulate them to a better study of their own literature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Arlene