benevolences
Example Sentences
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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
This last was a favourite phrase, and conveyed quite an alluring sense of mystery linked with vague promise of unstinted benevolences on the part of Miss Tripp.
From And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley
In 1473 this greedy king sent to Sir William Hampton, Lord Mayor, to extort benevolences, or subsidies.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Here we enter on a new range of denunciations—the inadequacy to English ideas and benevolences, not of Iberians and Celts, but of Normans and of English themselves.
From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan
