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benefactures

benefactures is the plural of benefacture.

Meaning of benefacture

Noun

benefacture (countable and uncountable, plural benefactures)

  1. (obsolete) An act of doing good; benefaction, beneficence.
    • All theſe diſpoſitions are but incloſures; Give mee the open Champaine of a generall and illimited benefacture: Is he rich?1651, Jos[eph] Hall, “Soliloq[uy] XXVIII: Univerſall Intereſt”, in Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloqvies: Or, Holy Self-Conferences of the Devout Soul […], Second edition, London: Printed by Will[iam] Hunt...
    Antonyms:
    malefacture

Questions about benefactures

What is benefactures the plural of?
Benefactures is the plural of benefacture.

Words near benefactures in the dictionary

  1. benefactresses
  2. benefactrices
  3. benefactrix
  4. benefacts
  5. benefacture
  6. benefactures
  7. beneffectance
  8. benefic
  9. benefice
  10. beneficed
  11. beneficeless

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