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Definition of Benefactors
1. benefactor [n] - See also: benefactor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benefactors
Literary usage of Benefactors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1894)
"AFTER mentioning Stapeldon, Stafford, Petre, and Charles I, it enumerates other
benefactors ' of the College as ... The older Benefactors' Book gives the ..."
2. Men and Events of Forty Years: Autobiographical Reminiscences of an Active by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, Henry Webster Parker (1891)
"Grinnell University and Iowa College—Their building—Progress —Fire—Tornado
Benefactors — Tribute to their Memory— Other Benefactors— Use of Trust Funds. ..."
3. Travels in New-England and New-York by Timothy Dwight (1821)
"Account ol Yale College continued—I1- principal Benefactors—Course of Studio —Medical
... The principal Benefactors, in modern times, have been the Rev. ..."
4. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Four necessary Things premised: Whence the Masters are collected ; whence the
Bishops ; whence the Benefactors ; whence the learned Writers. ..."
5. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"... to compel one another to do what is just, but not willing to do it themselves.
wky T>mt- '7. Benefactors seem to love those whom they have l more ..."