benevolences
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The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.
From Time Magazine Archive
Charles the First, amidst his urgent wants, at first had hoped, by the pathetic appeal to benevolences, that he should have touched the hearts of his unfriendly commoners; but the term of benevolence proved unlucky.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Each of the federating churches maintains its own corporate identity and its affiliation with its own denomination, to which it sends its contributions for benevolences and denominational work.
From The Farmer and His Community by Dwight Sanderson
His extravagance kept him in constant disputes with the Parliament, who would not grant him the sums he demanded, and compelled him to resort to monopolies, loans, benevolences, and other illegal methods.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
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