Benefaction vs Payment - What's the difference?
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An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 70:
An act of charity; almsgiving.
(uncountable) The act of paying.
(countable) A sum of money paid in exchange for goods or services.
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Benefaction is a related term of payment.
As nouns the difference between benefaction and payment
is that benefaction is an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing while payment is (uncountable) the act of paying.benefaction
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(en noun)- 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.
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment .” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}