Benefaction

Definitions: Benefaction

Benefaction

Noun

1. A contribution of money or assistance.

2. An act intending or showing kindness and good will.

Date "benefaction" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Etymology: Benefaction \Ben`e*fac"tion\, noun. [Latin expression benefactio, from benefacere to do good to one; bene well facere to do. See Benefit.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Benefaction

Synonym: benevolence (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Giving	Gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe, pilon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Benefaction

English words defined with "benefaction": Donation party ♦ Gift rope. (references)

Specialty definitions using "benefaction": Hulsean Lectures ♦ Scarification. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Benefaction or Bondage?: Social Policy and the Aged (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Benefaction" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Benefaction" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	14	93,893

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "benefaction"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mirësi (boon, gentleness, goodness, grace, graces, kindness, virtue, warmth, well doing), mirëbërësi (beneficence, goodness). (various references)

Bulgarian		благодеяние. (various references)

Czech		dobrodinní. (various references)

German		wohltat (benefit, blessing, boon, Favor, favour, good deed, relief). (various references)

Greek		χορηγία (sponsoring, sponsorship). (various references)

Hebrew		חס�" (benevolence, boon, charity, goodness, grace, graciousness, kindness). (various references)

Hungarian		jótett (alms deed, charity, good turn), jótékonyság (beneficence, benevolence, bounty, charity, gratefulness, pious deeds), adomány (boon, bounty, donation, donative, dower, gift, grant, largess, offertory). (various references)

Italian		beneficenza (beneficence), opera buona. (various references)

Manx		miallys (beneficence, bountifulness, clemency, gentleness, humaneness, philanthropy), foayr (boon, discrimination, favour, interest, kindness). (various references)

Norwegian		velgjerning. (various references)

Pig Latin		enefactionbay

Portuguese		benefício (advantage, avail, behoof, benefit, boon, fortification, gain, good, handicap, improvement, preference, profit), obra beneficente. (various references)

Romanian		binecuvântare (benediction, blessedness, blessing, happiness). (various references)

Russian		благодеяние (blessing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dobrotvorstvo (benefication, benevolence, good deed, well doing), dobročinstvo (benefication, benevolence, good deed, well doing). (various references)

Spanish		beneficio (advantage, benefice, benefit, blessing, bonus, dividend, favourable terms, gain, interest, leak, living, net profit, proceeds, profit, revenue). (various references)

Swedish		välsignelse (benediction, blessing, boon), välgörenhet (beneficence, beneficial, charity), donation (donation, endowment, gift, pittance). (various references)

Turkish		bağış (bestowal, bounty, contribution, donation, donative, endowment, gift, grant, largess, largesse, offer, offering, pittance), nimet (blessing, boon), hayır (Agape, auspiciousness, beneficence, charity, good, nay, no, nope). (various references)

Ukranian		благодіяння (beneficence), пожертвування (alms, offering), добродійність (beneficence, benevolence, blessing, well doing). (various references)

Vietnamese		việc thiện, việc nghĩa vật cúng v� o việc thiện. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "benefaction": benefactions. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Benefaction" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beneforti, Bonafacio. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "benefaction" (pronounced 'Ben`e*fac"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-t"
	-3 letters: boniface, cenobite, neotenic.
	-4 letters: acetone, aconite, actinon, ancient, benefic, benefit, betaine, botanic, cabinet, canteen, confine, connate, contain, ebonite, enation, faction, faience, fiancee, finance, fontina, iceboat, infante, neonate, niobate, nonfact.
	-5 letters: acetin, action, aeonic, ancone, anoint, atonic, bannet, beacon, beanie, beaten, bennet, biface, binate, bonaci, bonita, bonnet, bonnie, canine, cannie, cannot, canton, cation, cenote.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-t"
	+1 letter: benefactions.
	+2 letters: beneficiation.
	+3 letters: beneficiations.
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