benefaction

• From where Jason sat, he could see his own benefaction, a heap of small white roses, already limp but still giving out their heady sweet scent, and a handful of blackberries he'd picked from the thicket down by the pier. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 02 - August 1994
• It would be safer, perhaps, to let the suspicion rest upon that gentleman's memory, of having indulged his own benevolent disposition in this disguise, than to suppose it possible that so scanty and reluctant a benefaction was the sole mark of attention accorded by a “gracious Prince and Master” [Footnote: See Sheridan's Letter, page 268.] —  Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2
• We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and benefaction -- unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. —  Freezerbox Magazine
• So much, then, for the first point; now, in the second place, note the one divine act by which all these blessings have been bestowed Blessed be God who has given'; or, still more definitely, pointing to some one specific moment and deed in which the benefaction was completed, 'Blessed be God who gave When? —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• The giving of money is, of course, only one kind of benefaction, and not the highest kind, which is the giving of self; but the good which these gifts have rendered possible is beyond calculation Illustration: GIRARD This kind of philanthropy is no new thing in the United States. —  American Men of Mind

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