All 9 Uses of
benefactor
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- For instance, at his second visit, after he had received Dounia's consent, in the course of conversation, he declared that before making Dounia's acquaintance, he had made up his mind to marry a girl of good reputation, without dowry and, above all, one who had experienced poverty, because, as he explained, a man ought not to be indebted to his wife, but that it is better for a wife to look upon her husband as her benefactor.†
Chpt 1.3benefactor = someone who helps a person or organization -- especially financially
- "And is it true," Raskolnikov interposed once more suddenly, again in a voice quivering with fury and delight in insulting him, "is it true that you told your fiancee...within an hour of her acceptance, that what pleased you most...was that she was a beggar...because it was better to raise a wife from poverty, so that you may have complete control over her, and reproach her with your being her benefactor?"†
Chpt 2.5
- The prince knew me as a girl; he remembers Semyon Zaharovitch well and has often been a benefactor to him.†
Chpt 2.7
- It's remarkable, in fact, that the majority, indeed, of these benefactors and leaders of humanity were guilty of terrible carnage.†
Chpt 3.5 *benefactors = people who help a person or organization
- He had called on Raskolnikov with the feelings of a benefactor who is about to reap the fruits of his good deeds and to hear agreeable flattery.†
Chpt 4.3benefactor = someone who helps a person or organization -- especially financially
- It wasn't to help my mother I did the murder—that's nonsense—I didn't do the murder to gain wealth and power and to become a benefactor of mankind.†
Chpt 5.4
- I simply did it; I did the murder for myself, for myself alone, and whether I became a benefactor to others, or spent my life like a spider catching men in my web and sucking the life out of men, I couldn't have cared at that moment....And it was not the money I wanted, Sonia, when I did it.†
Chpt 5.4
- "Which all men shed," he put in almost frantically, "which flows and has always flowed in streams, which is spilt like champagne, and for which men are crowned in the Capitol and are called afterwards benefactors of mankind.†
Chpt 6.7benefactors = people who help a person or organization
- Of course, in that case many of the benefactors of mankind who snatched power for themselves instead of inheriting it ought to have been punished at their first steps.†
Chpt Epil.