benevolences
Example Sentences
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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
Special expenditures: the doctor and the dentist, church, benevolences, etc.
From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French
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
There can be no exchange, in the economic sense—I abstract from disguised benevolences, accidents, and frauds—without a quid pro quo, without value balancing value, at least roughly, in the process.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
