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
When benevolences had become a grievance, to diminish the odium they invented more inviting phrases.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Let us not disparage the importance of adding forty people to the church membership, or doubling the size of the Sunday school, or tripling the benevolences, or increasing the congregations.
From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske
President Ouincy says of him: "He was distinguished for his private benevolences and public usefulness."
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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