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Definition of Benefactresses
1. benefactress [n] - See also: benefactress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benefactresses
Literary usage of Benefactresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inner Jerusalem by Ada Goodrich-Freer (1904)
"... BETWEEN MOSLEM AND CHRISTIAN WOMEN—CHRISTIANS OF THE WORKING
CLASS—MANNERS—HOSPITALITY—NOTABLE WOMEN— benefactresses IT is but natural that woman, ..."
2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1863)
"The names of these benefactresses are engraved in Latin letters on the chalice
and on the paten. On the chalice is the following ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"She is the chief of my benefactresses.' "' Reverend Sir, by what means does one
thus become chief benefactress?' "' By praying for a hundred thousand ..."
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