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benefactions

benefactions is the plural of benefaction.

Meaning of benefaction

Noun

benefaction (countable and uncountable, plural benefactions)

  1. An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
    • We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [translating Wohlthat] to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 70
  2. An act of charity; almsgiving.

Questions about benefactions

What is benefactions the plural of?
Benefactions is the plural of benefaction.

Words near benefactions in the dictionary

  1. benefacted
  2. benefactee
  3. benefactees
  4. benefacting
  5. benefaction
  6. benefactions
  7. benefactive
  8. benefactive case
  9. benefactive cases
  10. benefactives
  11. benefactivity

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