benefaction
Example Sentences
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Calling himself a “venture philanthropist,” he expected his benefaction to bring more than a pat on the back and naming rights.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2021
We no longer have the luxury of altruism and world benefaction….
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2016
Varenne had had a number of wealthy patrons and the cumulative result of their benefaction was her “perfectly furnished” apartment in the Marais section of Paris.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2014
But many disagreed, including Mark Twain, who called JM Barrie's story "a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age".
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2012
It also indicates enough interest in formal learning to make such a benefaction worthwhile—as opposed, say, to paying more dancers to paint themselves purple and dance on wine-soaked streets.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing benefaction
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"Called Out" by Barbara Kingsolver
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