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▪ I. benefaction|bɛnɪˈfækʃən|
[ad. L. benefactiōn-em, n. of action f. benefacĕre: see benefit.]
1. A doing good, beneficence, kindly or generous action; a benefit or blessing.
a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 245 Marks of his Benefaction we find none, in places of his Breeding. 1728Newton Chronol. Amended 15 For which Benefaction she [Ceres] was Deified after death. 1875E. White Life in Christ (1878) 442 What it [divine goodness] will do in the way of positive benefaction.
2. esp. The bestowal of money for a charitable purpose; a grant, gift, bounty, endowment.
1674Scheffer's Lapland viii. 28 Retaining to the crown the superintendency of the benefaction. 1779Johnson Milton in L.P. (1816) 132 This was the greatest benefaction that Paradise Lost ever procured the author's descendants. 1855Prescott Philip II, iv. (1857) 58 She was liberal in her benefactions to convents and colleges.
▪ II. beneˈfaction, v. rare.
[f. prec. n.]
To endow with a benefaction. Cf. prec. 2.
1822Drakard Hist. Stamford in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. I. 199* It [the Friary at Stamford] was..further benefactioned by King Edward the Third. |