benevolences

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The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edward IV. was the first who practised a new method of taking his subjects' money without consent of parliament, under the plausible name of benevolences.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

President Ouincy says of him: "He was distinguished for his private benevolences and public usefulness."

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

My nurse was one of that sisterhood whose charities call down many a blessing on the Church that organizes their benevolences.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James