All 10 Uses of
benefactor
in
The Idiot
- The young fellow had confessed this love of his to him (Totski) and had also admitted it in the hearing of his benefactor, General Epanchin.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- I've found a benefactor.†
Chpt 1.15
- Idiot though he was, the noble scion tried to cheat his professor, and they say he succeeded in getting him to continue the treatment gratis for two years, by concealing the death of his benefactor.†
Chpt 2.8
- If I wished to behave nobly, justly, and with delicacy, I ought to bestow half my fortune upon the son of my benefactor; but as economy is my favourite virtue, and I know this is not a case in which the law can intervene, I will not give up half my millions.†
Chpt 2.8
- Pavlicheff was my benefactor, and my father's friend.†
Chpt 2.8
- Before Mr. Burdovsky made this claim, I proposed to found a school with this money, in memory of my benefactor, but I shall honour his memory quite as well by giving the ten thousand roubles to Mr. Burdovsky, because, though he was not Pavlicheff's son, he was treated almost as though he were.†
Chpt 2.8
- I found your respected mother at Pskoff, ill and in deep poverty, as she has been ever since the death of your benefactor.†
Chpt 2.9
- How can morality have need of my last breaths, and why should I die listening to the consolations offered by the prince, who, without doubt, would not omit to demonstrate that death is actually a benefactor to me?†
Chpt 3.7
- Such men do not give up their aspirations after originality without a severe struggle,—and there have been men who, though good fellows in themselves, and even benefactors to humanity, have sunk to the level of base criminals for the sake of originality).†
Chpt 4.1
- "It seems to me that you have been too painfully impressed by the news of what happened to your good benefactor," said the old dignitary, kindly, and with the utmost calmness of demeanour.†
Chpt 4.7
Definition:
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(benefactor) someone who helps a person or organization -- especially financially