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Definition of Donation

1. Noun. A voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause.

2. Noun. Act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity.

Definition of Donation

1. n. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

Definition of Donation

1. Noun. A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Donation

1. something donated [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Donation

donas donat donatable donataries donatary donate donate someone's body to science donated donated one's body to science donatee

donatees donates donates one's body to science donating donating one's body to science donation (current term) donations donationware donatism donatisms

donatistic donative donatives donator donatories donators donatory donatour donatrices donatrix

Literary usage of Donation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1858)
"Rear-Admiral O. Vernon (]X>nation) 10 0 0 Heywood, A. II., Esq., Manchester (2nd donation) 20 Uu Ilchester, the Earl of (donation) 10 ou Holbrook, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"A donation of this kind is made when a person "in his last sickness", ... The same donation may also be made in presence of any other impending peril of ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"puted the truth and validity of the donation of Constantine.71 In the revival of ... The act of donation he considers, strangely enough, as a forgery of the ..."

4. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"Thus it came to pass that at some uncertain time in the eighth century there was brought to birth the yet more monstrous fiction of The donation of ..."

5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"Not for the donation settler, since he had abandoned the land fifteen years before; ... It is true the donation notification had not been formally canceled, ..."

6. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1859)
"tern Lunatic Asylum, donation from the Directors of, 63. ... Young Men's Mercantile-Library Association, Cincinnati, donation from, 65. THE END. ..."

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