benevolences

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Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gifts went to the poor, contributions unstinted went to his church and to the benevolences of his denomination.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee

In a Parliament which met in January 1484 he enacted good laws, amongst which was one declaring benevolences illegal.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

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 Disraeli, Isaac