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Tribute vs Benefaction - What's the difference?

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Tribute is a related term of benefaction.


As a verb tribute

is .

As a noun benefaction is

an act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.

tribute

Noun

(en noun)
  • An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.
  • Please accept this as a tribute of our thanks.
  • * Gray
  • the passing tribute of a sigh
  • A payment made by one nation to another in submission.
  • The Ancient Romans made their conquered countries pay tribute .
  • Extortion; protection money.
  • A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.
  • (mining) A certain proportion of the mined ore, or of its value, given to the miner as payment.
  • (Pryce)
    (Tomlinson)

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (tribut)
  • To pay as tribute.
  • 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.