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Donative vs Benefaction - What's the difference?

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Donative is a related term of benefaction.


As nouns the difference between donative and benefaction

is that donative is a gift; a largess; a gratuity while benefaction is an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.

As an adjective donative

is of, pertaining to, or being a donation.

donative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or being a donation

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gift; a largess; a gratuity.
  • * Dryden
    • The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives .
  • (ecclesiastical law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders.

    • 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.