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Значения термина benefaction на английском

Act of kidness.

An act intending or showing kindness and good will.

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Examples for "boon"
Examples for "boon"
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A parliamentary majority would be a boon for Hollande in that case.
Reuters
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Remember, it is you who came to us to ask a boon.
The seeker
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This was a doubtful boon, an unsatisfactory rise in the social scale.
Girlhood and Womanhood / The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortu...
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Housing prices are also on the rise, a boon for property taxes.
Reuters
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A General Growth bankruptcy could be a boon for shareholders, he said.
Reuters
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Even in evils the student learns to recognise only a struggling beneficence.
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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The turning-point was not merely the confession, but the act, of beneficence.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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With him, the ties of love are consolidated by beneficence and friendship.
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
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The fatherhood of God, His loving-kindness and beneficence are apparent to all.
Foundations of World Unity
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Every act of beneficence and gracious queenliness had been long ago resumed.
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
Использование термина benefaction на английском
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Italy may survive the benefaction of the Countess's approval, we cannot tell.
Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
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Only one of these acts of sympathy and benefaction we will mention.
Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
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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 / ...
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The next great benefaction we have to record is, in some respects, unique.
American Men of Mind
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Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction.
The Devil's Dictionary
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Why not all the benefaction on our side, and a figo for rewards!
Celt and Saxon — Volume 2
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It conveys a benefaction to a faithful and attached friend of the good Field-Marshal.
Roundabout Papers
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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 ...
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It taught me something about what could be termed benefaction.
The Guardian
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Ultimately, unless outside benefaction comes in, there is only one possible source: other students' fees.
The Guardian
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To outward seeming all delicacy had been exercised in the bestowal of Sir Job's benefaction.
Born in Exile
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Therefore, Coke had been the victim of an attitude as well as of a benefaction.
Active Service
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We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.
NY Magazine
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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...
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A benefaction of so noble a kind, that it really doth honour to the English nation.
The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 12
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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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Benefaction через время
Benefaction в диалектах
Великобритания
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