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

There are, doubtless, loans which are disguised benevolences, where the lender gets nothing good in return for his loan.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

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

Levies of money were long raised under the pathetic appeal of benevolences.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac