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
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
When benevolences had become a grievance, to diminish the odium they invented more inviting phrases.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
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 William Robert Lee Smith
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