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
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 Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Levies of money were long raised under the pathetic appeal of benevolences.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
In reply to question 7, eight declared that the benevolences had increased, three that they had remained the same, one said benevolences varied in different years, while in three the benevolences had declined.
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill
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