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Meanings of confer a benefit in English

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Usage of confer a benefit in English
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The murderer could inflict no injury, but would confer a benefit.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
2
Pride ought above all things to be avoided when you confer a benefit.
L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits
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I came to confer a benefit, not to perpetrate an injury.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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And my life is nothing if in giving it I may confer a benefit.
A Splendid Hazard
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This will be better for the archduke himself, and will confer a benefit on the Society.
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and li...
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I will now confer a benefit on him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Forgive an intruder, Madam, and confer a benefit.
"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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We have found ourselves treated, at every house, as if we came to confer a benefit.
Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 / The Work...
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State laws enable the creation of corporations because they are thought to confer a benefit on society.
Wired
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We recommend it to our readers; and they will confer a benefit on their new-married patients by recommending it to them.
The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease
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There is no better aid to life than a certain knowledge that our demise would confer a benefit on some fellow-creature.
The Deserted Woman
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How could the Senate confer a benefit upon the President by the manner of employing their right of negative upon his nominations?
The Federalist Papers
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I might permit my fellow-citizens to confer a benefit on me-becauseI should hope some day to make them an adequate return.
The Works of Frederick Schiller
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You have it in your power to help confer a benefit, and I mean to work until I get your consent to the scheme.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures; Or, Life in Australia
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To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
Phineas Redux
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A man does not save your life who does not kill you; nor does he confer a benefit, but merely gives you your discharge.
L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits
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