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Meanings of benefaction in inglês

Act of kidness.

        An act intending or showing kindness and good will.

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              Examples for "boon"
              Examples for "boon"
              1
              A parliamentary majority would be a boon for Hollande in that case.
              Reuters
              2
              Remember, it is you who came to us to ask a boon.
              The seeker
              3
              This was a doubtful boon, an unsatisfactory rise in the social scale.
              Girlhood and Womanhood / The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortu...
              4
              Housing prices are also on the rise, a boon for property taxes.
              Reuters
              5
              A General Growth bankruptcy could be a boon for shareholders, he said.
              Reuters
              1
              Even in evils the student learns to recognise only a struggling beneficence.
              The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
              2
              The turning-point was not merely the confession, but the act, of beneficence.
              Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
              3
              With him, the ties of love are consolidated by beneficence and friendship.
              An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
              4
              The fatherhood of God, His loving-kindness and beneficence are apparent to all.
              Foundations of World Unity
              5
              Every act of beneficence and gracious queenliness had been long ago resumed.
              Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
              Usage of benefaction in inglês
              1
              Italy may survive the benefaction of the Countess's approval, we cannot tell.
              Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
              2
              Only one of these acts of sympathy and benefaction we will mention.
              Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
              3
              The insolence of benefaction terminates not in negative rudeness or obliquities of insult.
              The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / ...
              4
              The next great benefaction we have to record is, in some respects, unique.
              American Men of Mind
              5
              Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction.
              The Devil's Dictionary
              6
              Why not all the benefaction on our side, and a figo for rewards!
              Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
              7
              It conveys a benefaction to a faithful and attached friend of the good Field-Marshal.
              Roundabout Papers
              8
              Few love their friends so well as not to desire superiority by unexpensive benefaction.
              The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
              9
              It taught me something about what could be termed benefaction.
              The Guardian
              10
              Ultimately, unless outside benefaction comes in, there is only one possible source: other students' fees.
              The Guardian
              11
              To outward seeming all delicacy had been exercised in the bestowal of Sir Job's benefaction.
              Born in Exile
              12
              Therefore, Coke had been the victim of an attitude as well as of a benefaction.
              Active Service
              13
              We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.
              NY Magazine
              14
              Your profuse benefaction of genius in so few years makes me feel very poor and useless.
              The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18...
              15
              A benefaction of so noble a kind, that it really doth honour to the English nation.
              The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 12
              16
              Rays of blessing, streaming from her hands, revealed the Mother of grace and of all benefaction.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
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