All 13 Uses of
benefactor
in
Great Expectations
- Even after I was happily hanged and Wopsle had closed the book, Pumblechook sat staring at me, and shaking his head, and saying, "Take warning, boy, take warning!" as if it were a well-known fact that I contemplated murdering a near relation, provided I could only induce one to have the weakness to become my benefactor.†
Chpt 15
- Now you are to understand, secondly, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret, until the person chooses to reveal it.†
Chpt 18 *
- I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was.†
Chpt 22
- Finally, he went away with Mr. and Mrs. Hubble,—to make an evening of it, I felt sure, and to tell the Jolly Bargemen that he was the founder of my fortunes and my earliest benefactor.†
Chpt 35
- Is my benefactor to be made known to me to-day?†
Chpt 36
- I was beginning to express my gratitude to my benefactor for the great liberality with which I was treated, when Mr. Jaggers stopped me.†
Chpt 36
- I have been informed by a person named Abel Magwitch, that he is the benefactor so long unknown to me.†
Chpt 40
- Estella, pausing a moment in her knitting with her eyes upon me, and then going on, I fancied that I read in the action of her fingers, as plainly as if she had told me in the dumb alphabet, that she perceived I had discovered my real benefactor.†
Chpt 44
- This bringing us into conversation, he was so good as to entertain me with my own story,—of course with the popular feature that Pumblechook was my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortunes.†
Chpt 52
- For now, my repugnance to him had all melted away; and in the Hunted, wounded, shackled creature who held my hand in his, I only saw a man who had meant to be my benefactor, and who had felt affectionately, gratefully, and generously, towards me with great constancy through a series of years.†
Chpt 54
- Mr. Pumblechook stood over me and poured out my tea—before I could touch the teapot—with the air of a benefactor who was resolved to be true to the last.†
Chpt 58
- Says you, "Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortun's.†
Chpt 58
- Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's.†
Chpt 58
Definition:
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(benefactor) someone who helps a person or organization -- especially financially