Noun : He is known throughout the region for his many benefactions. ,to solicit benefactions for earthquake victims. From Dictionary.com.
Shall I not cherish the fruits of my own benefaction?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
We ought to prize and retain it as a divine benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
I repaid the benefaction by never returning to Bethesda. From Wordnik.com. [J. Michael Bishop - Autobiography] Reference
But even this is scarcely his greatest benefaction to the study of ballads. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
It took Columbia and Pulitzer 10 years to agree and to make the benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [News and the Culture of Lying] Reference
A second chaplain was subsequently added by the benefaction of one William de. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
With the help of the great benefaction of Mr. Hand, whose money was made in the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 01, January, 1889] Reference
He was president of the Stanford University, a private benefaction of the times. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1: My Eagle] Reference
If you are poor, it will come to you, or your family, sometimes as a benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
The chair is funded by a benefaction from Qatar, of which the Sheikh is the Emir. From Wordnik.com. [Oxford's latest prize] Reference
In an instant life became an inexpressible benefaction, for it permitted me to realise. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
It conveys a benefaction to a faithful and attached friend of the good Field – Marshal. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
I am now at liberty to mention a very noble benefaction which I received about a year ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
About half South Africa's exports came from mining and its immediate benefaction, he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Several members not benefaction had already voiced their opinions to a Secretary or a Dean. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Rays of blessing, streaming from her hands, revealed the Mother of grace and of all benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism:" The Economic Strategy of Imperial America] Reference
His greatest benefaction to English poetry was in refining its language and harmonizing its versification. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
On taking leave of his aunt he gave his usual sumptuous benefaction to her servants, who crowded round him. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
The whole concept would be wrong if it meant that the state is taking the place of any private benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [One Hundred Million Dollars for What?] Reference
Although entirely a private benefaction, its doors are open to students absolutely free of all tuition charges. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
South Africa as "our money", to emphasise the relationship between a benefactor and a recipient of benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
He left a legacy, including his library, to the new institution of learning, which was a princely benefaction for the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884] Reference
(APPLAUSE) It is left to us to keep their generous benefaction alive and our blessed, beautiful country worthy of their courage. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004] Reference
Vice Dean Fallon's son Rob Fallon, an environmentalist from Oregon, was benefaction as his father's guest, heartily welcomed by all. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
It's left to us -- It's left to use to keep their generous benefaction alive, and our blessed, beautiful country worthy of their courage. From Wordnik.com. [2004 Republican National Convention Address] Reference
This is an outright lie, outrageously perpetrated to offer the image of a benefaction of land for which Jews should be eternally grateful. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Roger Clopton it will indeed be a timely benefaction, and now very much to be desired as an important step towards the completion of the work of restoration. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
We think they will feel that it is only honorable to let Mr. Hand's benefaction add so much new work, and that it should not be used simply to relieve others. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 01, January, 1889] Reference
Mr. Hope, from his latest pages, has breathed on a tired and jaded time the breath of a pure and harmless fancy, and has earned its thanks for that benefaction. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
So then, entertaining the sentiment of Friendship, and all feelings connected with it, attend on those who, in the given case of a benefaction, are the superior party. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Refusing gifts, he was glad to guide the benefaction of a grateful state to educate the children of his fallen braves in the institution at Lexington which yet bears his name. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
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