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
When benevolences had become a grievance, to diminish the odium they invented more inviting phrases.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
In a Parliament which met in January 1484 he enacted good laws, amongst which was one declaring benevolences illegal.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
He did not really believe that: only it so linked up with the chain of her unceasing benevolences toward him that it seemed the only thing to complete them adequately.
From Old Crow by Brown, Alice
