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Meanings of benefaction in English
Synonyms
Examples for "boon"
Examples for "boon"
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.
Usage of benefaction in English
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Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction.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.
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