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Advancement vs Benefaction - What's the difference?

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Advancement is a related term of benefaction.


As nouns the difference between advancement and benefaction

is that advancement is the act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning while benefaction is an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.

advancement

English

Alternative forms

* advancemente * advauncement * advauncemente

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
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  • An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
  • (legal) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

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    benefaction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
  • * 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 70:
    • We all feel that sleep is a benefaction 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.
  • An act of charity; almsgiving.