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Meanings of public benefaction in English

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Usage of public benefaction in English
1
Among the middle classes in Siberia the erection of churches is, or has been, the fashionable mode of public benefaction.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
2
At any rate it cannot help but be a public benefaction and a public asset, if only its art be true.
The Amateur Garden
3
The reports of such of Mrs. Owen's public benefactions as occasionally reached the newspapers were always alarming.
A Hoosier Chronicle
4
His interest in the people of his own community has been shown not merely by his public benefactions.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885
5
He gave large sums to public benefactions, and never stinted his wife in her giving within certain limits.
The Portion of Labor
6
His public benefactions were also notable, and during the later years of his life he gave away regularly no inconsiderable share of his income.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era / A Supplementa...
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