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Definition of benefaction in English: benefactionnoun ˌbɛnɪˈfakʃ(ə)nˌbɛnəˈfækʃən formal A donation or gift. 〈正式〉捐赠；赠物 an exceptional benefaction mass noun take official receipt of such benefaction Example sentencesExamples - Kellogg College has received generous benefactions from the Kellogg Foundation.
- Those without political ambitions would point to their record of public service and, if wealthy, to their public and private benefactions.
- The new Foundation will receive a benefaction of £10 million from the Rhodes Trust, and will focus on the areas of education, governance, healthcare, environmental protection, law and sport.
- In fact there is an ambiguity to several of these benefactions.
- It is left to us to keep their generous benefaction alive, and our blessed, beautiful country worthy of their courage.
- Copenhagen is filled with his projects and benefactions - most famously the Little Mermaid, which he commissioned in 1913 after seeing a ballet version of the Hans Christian Anderson story.
- But society visits upon its members other benefactions, of such significance as to make it appear more and more divine.
- These conferences are made possible through the benefaction of the Barrow Cadbury Trust.
- His total benefactions - including more than 2,800 Carnegie libraries - amounted to $350 million.
- My second example is the recent establishment of a professorship of Modern Arabic, made possible by a benefaction from the Sultan of Oman.
- She wasted a great part of the royal treasury for her benefactions!
- By such benefactions artists seek to pay some of their dues.
- But he left his benefaction for the university untouched and so inspired his colleagues and sons that they saw to its establishment.
- Occasionally, a great private patron with local connections might favour the town with a benefaction or by acting as friend at court.
- As one of his biographers noted, the statistics of his benefactions alone are mind-numbing.
- He provided steady employment and the list of his benefactions was long.
- 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.
- ‘I was brought up by the country, and I am always thinking of repaying the benefaction with my little contribution,’ Chen said.
- It is worth examining these benefactions carefully in order to determine from whence individual things came.
- Allowing for inflation, religious benefactions dropped from a total of over £80,000 in 1501-10 to under £2,000 in 1591-1600.
Synonyms present, donation, offering, contribution, handout, presentation, bestowal, largesse, alms, charity, bonus, award, premium, bounty, boon, favour, bequest, legacy, inheritance, settlement, subsidy, grant, endowment
OriginMid 17th century: from late Latin benefactio(n-), from bene facere 'do good (to)', from bene 'well' + facere 'do'. Rhymesabstraction, action, attraction, compaction, contraction, counteraction, diffraction, enaction, exaction, extraction, faction, fraction, interaction, liquefaction, malefaction, petrifaction, proaction, protraction, putrefaction, redaction, retroaction, satisfaction, stupefaction, subtraction, traction, transaction, tumefaction, vitrifaction Definition of benefaction in US English: benefactionnounˌbɛnəˈfækʃənˌbenəˈfakSHən formal A donation or gift. 〈正式〉捐赠；赠物 an exceptional benefaction mass noun take official receipt of such benefaction Example sentencesExamples - In fact there is an ambiguity to several of these benefactions.
- She wasted a great part of the royal treasury for her benefactions!
- But society visits upon its members other benefactions, of such significance as to make it appear more and more divine.
- Kellogg College has received generous benefactions from the Kellogg Foundation.
- ‘I was brought up by the country, and I am always thinking of repaying the benefaction with my little contribution,’ Chen said.
- Occasionally, a great private patron with local connections might favour the town with a benefaction or by acting as friend at court.
- Copenhagen is filled with his projects and benefactions - most famously the Little Mermaid, which he commissioned in 1913 after seeing a ballet version of the Hans Christian Anderson story.
- His total benefactions - including more than 2,800 Carnegie libraries - amounted to $350 million.
- By such benefactions artists seek to pay some of their dues.
- But he left his benefaction for the university untouched and so inspired his colleagues and sons that they saw to its establishment.
- Those without political ambitions would point to their record of public service and, if wealthy, to their public and private benefactions.
- Allowing for inflation, religious benefactions dropped from a total of over £80,000 in 1501-10 to under £2,000 in 1591-1600.
- These conferences are made possible through the benefaction of the Barrow Cadbury Trust.
- As one of his biographers noted, the statistics of his benefactions alone are mind-numbing.
- The new Foundation will receive a benefaction of £10 million from the Rhodes Trust, and will focus on the areas of education, governance, healthcare, environmental protection, law and sport.
- It is left to us to keep their generous benefaction alive, and our blessed, beautiful country worthy of their courage.
- It is worth examining these benefactions carefully in order to determine from whence individual things came.
- He provided steady employment and the list of his benefactions was long.
- My second example is the recent establishment of a professorship of Modern Arabic, made possible by a benefaction from the Sultan of Oman.
- 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.
Synonyms present, donation, offering, contribution, handout, presentation, bestowal, largesse, alms, charity, bonus, award, premium, bounty, boon, favour, bequest, legacy, inheritance, settlement, subsidy, grant, endowment
OriginMid 17th century: from late Latin benefactio(n-), from bene facere ‘do good (to)’, from bene ‘well’ + facere ‘do’. |