benefaction

How To Use benefaction In A Sentence

• The bieing innate of a battery based upon peoples entrance to fast as well as postulated for benefaction needs. Archive 2009-12-01
• She wasted a great part of the royal treasury for her benefactions!
• His total benefactions - including more than 2,800 Carnegie libraries - amounted to $350 million.
• 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. American Men of Mind
• Refounded in 1602 on the site of the earlier university library, it has since 1604 borne by royal decree the name of the remarkable man whose endowment remains the greatest benefaction ever received by the University of Oxford.
• Allowing for inflation, religious benefactions dropped from a total of over £80,000 in 1501-10 to under £2,000 in 1591-1600.
• ‘I was brought up by the country, and I am always thinking of repaying the benefaction with my little contribution,’ Chen said.
• Half her time was spent at spillikins, which I consider as a very valuable part of our household furniture, and as not the least important benefaction from the family of Knight to that of Austen. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
• By such benefactions artists seek to pay some of their dues.
• Permit me now to render my portion of the general debt of gratitude, by acknowledgements in advance for the singular benefaction which is the subject of this letter, to tender my wishes for the continuance of a life so usefully employed, and to add the assurances of my perfect esteem and respect. Letters