Benefaction

/bɛnɪˈfakʃ(ə)n/

Synonyms for "benefaction" (45 found)

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Closest matches (9)

act of graceact of kindnessalmsbeneficence

Strong matches (14)

Noun(5 words)
charityduty to aidendowmentgenerositiesgift

Related words (22)

good deedgood officesgood turngracekind deedkind officeskindly actkindnesslabor of lovemannamercymitzvahobligationofferingofficepatronageserviceturn
Noun(4 words)
grantmoral obligationoblationphilanthropy

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

10 entries
almsgivingbenignitycontributiondonationethical conceptfundinggiftkindnessmoral principlenormative concept

More specific

7 entries
cash donationcharitable obligationduty to aidendowmentin-kind giftmoral obligationscholarship

Collocations

6 entries
benevolent giftcharitable endowmentcharitable giftdonation amountendowment fundphilanthropic act

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [translating Wohlthat] to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.

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