Meaning of benefacture | Babel Free

Definitions

An act of doing good; benefaction, beneficence.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“All theſe diſpoſitions are but incloſures; Give mee the open Champaine of a generall and illimited benefacture: Is he rich?”

“True it is he was full of pious and charitable good works and bublick Benefactures in his latter dayes.”

“Since, it is no ſmall greif to think, how this once apprized Gem is now depreciated; a diſcouragement to any ſuch kind of Benefacture.”

“A more sensible, well[-]intentioned benefacture could not have been devised, and it redounds all the more to the young man that in the will he considers himself to be only the almoner of his father, by whose business sagacity the handssome fortune was acquired.”

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