Meanings
verbbenefact (third-person singular simple present benefacts, present participle benefacting, simple past and past participle benefacted)
present singular third person benefacts · participle present benefacting · participle past benefacted · past benefacted
- nonstandardraretransitiveTo benefit; to act as benefactor toward.
You must feel yourselves in the Christian economy on one great level , each benefacting the other , without assuming superiority one over the other.
1854, John Cumming, Sabbath Evening Readings on the New Testament, page 486
Origin
Back-formation from benefactor.
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