benefaction

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /bɛnɪˈfakʃ(ə)n/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. An act of charity; almsgiving. countable,uncountable

词形变化

benefactions plural

词汇关系

近义词
almsdeed almsgiving benefaction donation oblation
上位词
bestowal
相关词
affordment

词源

From Latin benefactiōnem, from benefacere (“to benefit”).
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