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benefice

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɛnɪfɪs/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bceeefinStarts with BEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. endow with a benefice

Word origin

From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.

Used in a sentence

  • If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […]
  • There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
  • 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.

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