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- noun Plural form of
benefactress .
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Examples
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Many, the benefactresses noted proudly, returned to the home to celebrate their weddings.
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“Always as I eat my food,” he answered, — “as my benefactresses; but chiefly as the first young girls worthy of love whom I ever knew.”
A Daughter of Eve 2007
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To all these attentions He replied with much seeming gratitude, and abundance of blessings upon his benefactresses.
The Monk 2004
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Then the colleges, you will say, which had benefited, they must have given it gladly in memory of their noble benefactresses?
Three Guineas 2003
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No matter really whether Sulla was innocent of any complicity in the deaths of his mistress and his stepmother, his testamentary benefactresses.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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Minerva and Ceres had been placed by Boccaccio among famous women, benefactresses of mankind;
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968
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I should not presume even to mention that fatal convulsion which shook all Europe and has since left the nations in that state of agitated undulation which succeeds a tempest upon the ocean, were it not for the opportunity it gives me to declare the bounty of my benefactresses.
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August, 1792, from the kindness and humanity of my, august benefactresses, I was compelled to accept a mission to Italy, devised merely to send me from the sanguinary scenes of which they foresaw they and theirs must presently become victims.
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Her little contemporary went to join the angels, and pray for her benefactresses in heaven.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community
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What she has omitted I trust I shall supply; and where she has gone astray I hope to set her right; that, between the two, the future biographer of my august benefactresses may be in no want of authentic materials to do full justice to their honoured memories.
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