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Benefice vs Benefit - What's the difference?

benefice | benefit |

In obsolete terms the difference between benefice and benefit

is that benefice is a favour or benefit while benefit is beneficence; liberality.

As nouns the difference between benefice and benefit

is that benefice is land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it while benefit is an advantage, help, sake or aid from something.

As verbs the difference between benefice and benefit

is that benefice is to bestow a benefice upon while benefit is to be or to provide a benefit to.

benefice

English

(wikipedia benefice)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
  • *, NYRB, 2001, vol.1, p.323:
    • If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […].
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p.94:
    • There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
  • (obsolete) A favour or benefit.
    • (Baxter)
  • (feudal law) An estate in lands; a fief.

    • Verb

    (benefic)
  • To bestow a upon
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=George A. Stephen, title=Three Centuries of a City Library, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There are two volumes, "The Open Door for Man's approach to God" (London, 1650) and "A Consideration of Infant Baptism" (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's Lynn. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Horace Greeley, title=Glances at Europe, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you'' DO ''it? }} ----

    benefit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An advantage, help, sake or aid from something.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit , Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
  • A performance, etc, given to raise funds for some cause.
  • (obsolete) beneficence; liberality

    • Derived terms

    * beneficial * benefiter

    Synonyms

    * (advantage, help ): foredeal, advantage, aid, assistance, boon, help * (payment ): subsidy

    Antonyms

    * (advantage, help ): disadvantage, encumbrance, hindrance, nuisance, obstacle, detriment

    See also

    * lagniappe

    Verb

  • To be or to provide a benefit to.
  • * Bible, Jer. xviii. 10
    • I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
  • To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.

    • Usage notes

    * Benefiting and benefited are more common, with benefitting and benefitted being a minor variant especially in the US.

    Synonyms

    * help, batten

    Antonyms

    * malefic * detriment

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "benefit") * benefit association * benefit dollar * benefit in kind * benefit of clergy * benefit principle * benefit society * benefit-cost analysis * benefit-cost ratio * benefits coordinator * bennies * cafeteria benefit * child tax benefit * core benefit * cost-benefit analysis * death benefit * elective benefit * employee benefit * equivalent annual benefit * family benefit * friend with benefits * fringe benefit * income-related benefit * injury benefit * maternity benefit * means-tested benefit * nonstatutory fringe benefit * nonwage benefit * private benefit * risk-benefit * sickness benefit * state benefit * stranded benefit * supplementary benefit * survivor benefit * unemployment benefit * variable death benefit *

    Related terms

    (terms related to "benefit") * benefactor * beneficence * beneficent * beneficiary