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Webster 1913 Edition
Benefaction
Benˊe-fac′tion
,Noun.
1.
The act of conferring a benefit.
Johnson.
2.
A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.
Syn. – Gift; present; gratuity; boon; alms.
Webster 1828 Edition
Benefaction
BENEFAC'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of conferring a benefit. More generally,
2.
A benefit conferred, especially a charitable donation.Definition 2024
benefaction
benefaction
English
Noun
benefaction (plural benefactions)
- An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 70:
- We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [transl. 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.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 70:
- An act of charity; almsgiving.
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