All 9 Uses of
benefactor
in
Bleak House
- "John Jarndyce" I had perhaps less reason to be surprised than either of my companions, having never yet enjoyed an opportunity of thanking one who had been my benefactor and sole earthly dependence through so many years.†
Chpt 4-6
- I may have been born to be a benefactor to you by sometimes giving you an opportunity of assisting me in my little perplexities.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Jellyby is a benefactor to society and deserves a helping hand.†
Chpt 7-9
- …however, the possession, and the only possession except fifty shillings per annum and a very small box indifferently filled with clothing, of a lean young woman from a workhouse (by some supposed to have been christened Augusta) who, although she was farmed or contracted for during her growing time by an amiable benefactor of his species resident at Tooting, and cannot fail to have been developed under the most favourable circumstances, "has fits," which the parish can't account for.†
Chpt 10-12
- That, all that time, he had been giving employment to a most deserving man, that he had been a benefactor to Coavinses, that he had actually been enabling Coavinses to bring up these charming children in this agreeable way, developing these social virtues!†
Chpt 13-15
- Over which bee-like industry these benefactors of their species linger yet, though office-hours be past, that they may give, for every day, some good account at last.†
Chpt 31-33
- The owners of such places as Chesney Wold," said Mr. Skimpole with his usual happy and easy air, "are public benefactors.†
Chpt 43-45
- They are good enough to maintain a number of delightful objects for the admiration and pleasure of us poor men; and not to reap all the admiration and pleasure that they yield is to be ungrateful to our benefactors.†
Chpt 43-45
- In return for this consideration he would come into the room once a day, all but blessing it—showing a condescension, and a patronage, and a grace of manner in dispensing the light of his highshouldered presence from which I might have supposed him (if I had not known better) to have been the benefactor of Caddy's life.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(benefactor) someone who helps a person or organization -- especially financially