benevolences
Example Sentences
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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 Disraeli, Isaac
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 Morgan, J. H.
The expenses were defrayed by benevolences from the City Companies, and ten years' fees, fines, and amercements.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
