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Act of kidness.
boon
beneficence
An act intending or showing kindness and good will.
benevolence
boon
beneficence
1
A parliamentary majority would be a
boon
for Hollande in that case.
2
Remember, it is you who came to us to ask a
boon
.
3
This was a doubtful
boon
,
an unsatisfactory rise in the social scale.
4
Housing prices are also on the rise, a
boon
for property taxes.
5
A General Growth bankruptcy could be a
boon
for shareholders, he said.
1
Even in evils the student learns to recognise only a struggling
beneficence
.
2
The turning-point was not merely the confession, but the act, of
beneficence
.
3
With him, the ties of love are consolidated by
beneficence
and friendship.
4
The fatherhood of God, His loving-kindness and
beneficence
are apparent to all.
5
Every act of
beneficence
and gracious queenliness had been long ago resumed.
1
Italy may survive the
benefaction
of the Countess's approval, we cannot tell.
2
Only one of these acts of sympathy and
benefaction
we will mention.
3
The insolence of
benefaction
terminates not in negative rudeness or obliquities of insult.
4
The next great
benefaction
we have to record is, in some respects, unique.
5
Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by
benefaction
.
6
Why not all the
benefaction
on our side, and a figo for rewards!
7
It conveys a
benefaction
to a faithful and attached friend of the good Field-Marshal.
8
Few love their friends so well as not to desire superiority by unexpensive
benefaction
.
9
It taught me something about what could be termed
benefaction
.
10
Ultimately, unless outside
benefaction
comes in, there is only one possible source: other students' fees.
11
To outward seeming all delicacy had been exercised in the bestowal of Sir Job's
benefaction
.
12
Therefore, Coke had been the victim of an attitude as well as of a
benefaction
.
13
We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and
world
-
benefaction
.
14
Your profuse
benefaction
of genius in so few years makes me feel very poor and useless.
15
A
benefaction
of so noble a kind, that it really doth honour to the English nation.
16
Rays of blessing, streaming from her hands, revealed the Mother of grace and of all
benefaction
.
benefaction
great benefaction
human benefaction
public benefaction
splendid benefaction
accept any benefaction