benefact
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from benefactor.
Verb[edit]
benefact (third-person singular simple present benefacts, present participle benefacting, simple past and past participle benefacted)
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To benefit; to act as benefactor toward.
- 1854, John Cumming, Sabbath Evening Readings on the New Testament, page 486:
- You must feel yourselves in the Christian economy on one great level , each benefacting the other , without assuming superiority one over the other.