What's the difference between benefactor and largess?

Benefactor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who confers a benefit or benefits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
  • (2) In the absence of foreign benefactors it makes financial sense, and also appeals to the supporters in control, to give young German players an opportunity.
  • (3) Airline shares are leading the charge -- they're an obvious benefactor from the lower oil price.
  • (4) The contemporary family romance myth of the secret benefactor as rescuer is described.
  • (5) Kim Jong-un's need for cash has grown more urgent following tough UN sanctions in response to recent missile and nuclear tests, which also prompted China, the North's main benefactor, to rein in its assistance.
  • (6) His benefactors, he says, are "rather lovely people, who say: 'I'm a little bit Red, I'm a little bit Tory.
  • (7) It reveals seven foundation benefactors linked to HSBC bank accounts in Geneva, who have donated, in total, as much as $81m.
  • (8) The army's equipment is now so poor that soldiers typically buy their own uniforms and most military equipment, or rely on private benefactors.
  • (9) The nation faces losing further culturally important works, including Poussin's The Infant Moses trampling Pharaoh's Crown (c1645-6) and a 1641 Van Dyck self-portrait, unless rich benefactors can find £26.5m to save them before temporary export bans run out.
  • (10) Makhaya wrote: “These contradictions, Rhodes the pillager and Rhodes the benefactor, are a symbol of our country’s evolution towards a yet to be attained just and inclusive order.
  • (11) She knows he is a national treasure, both as a footballing icon and benefactor to many of Liberia's poor.
  • (12) The children's relatively good scores on the tests may be understood by placing their abandonment in a cultural perspective, which includes the children's strong peer support system, their access to adult benefactors, and the fact that the children were developing in an orderly fashion from matrifocal families.
  • (13) I must confess to having been a little surprised at being asked to give The Dental School Founders' and Benefactors' Lecture this year.
  • (14) "If you thought your benefactor's name was to be revealed, then you are greatly mistaken," said Jaggers.
  • (15) HSBC executives continued to so business with Al Rajhi Bank in Saudi Arabia, even after it emerged that its owners had links to organizations financing terrorism and that one of the bank's founders was an early financial benefactor of al-Qaida.
  • (16) Last week it was revealed he had used a network of benefactors – including tapping Mandela for a 3m rand (£214,000) gift – who shelled out millions of rand to sustain him and his 21-child family.
  • (17) I have never met or spoken with him, and it’s rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor.
  • (18) To imagine the US president negotiating with these countries as if he were a benefactor discussing how fast wealth should be transferred from west to east is just not realistic.
  • (19) Concerns are heightened by their being dependent on a single benefactor, the owner Eddie Davies.
  • (20) With President Trump in a position to personally benefit financially from his world-wide business enterprises, the American people will not be able to tell whose interests are represented by the president’s policy decisions: Trump’s financial interests, his benefactors’ interests, or the interests of the American people.” Nor is the long-awaited plan likely to appease Trump’s government critics.

Largess


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Largesse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Newell , who made Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire , directed Great Expectations, but there was no big-budget largesse this time.
  • (2) Despite numerous irregularities ... you have managed to thwart this regime’s congenital traps of fraud.” Bongo, 57, who first won election after his father Omar died in 2009 after 42 years as president, has benefited from the power of incumbency as well as a patronage system lubricated by oil largesse.
  • (3) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
  • (4) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
  • (5) Now, with the nation he inherited from his father squeezed by prolonged international sanctions and largesse from its former communist allies mostly gone, Kim is calling on farmers to win him another battle.
  • (6) In some societies, particularly Islamic ones, the wealthy bestow their largesse on religious foundations.
  • (7) In June, when the chancellor announces future government spending plans, he will claim that recent growth in the AME budget has been as much structural as cyclical, driven by political choices, not social need, and he will attack Labour for increasing spending on tax credits and welfare largesse.
  • (8) Sixth-formers would miss out on the largesse, however, with the IFS calculating that “spending per student in 16-18 education would remain about 10% lower than it would be for secondary schools”, no matter who wins the coming election.
  • (9) Nor was the largesse recouped only by wealthy councils, since redistribution shared revenue nationwide.
  • (10) From central European minnows such as Slovakia to Baltic eurozone republics such as Latvia and Lithuania , hard-pressed pensioners and workers earning barely €500 a month are at a loss as to why Greece should qualify for more largesse.
  • (11) By the time Mobutu was overthrown in 1997, after two decades of American and other western largesse, his country had just about one tenth of the paved roads it had had at independence in the early Sixties.
  • (12) They have guns, supporters and, after years of western largesse, plenty of money, and are once again flexing their muscles, so the Taliban cannot only talk with the government.
  • (13) But in saying that he "expects" the two parties to campaign separately at the next general election , he was providing a foretaste of a nightmare for most of Clegg's foot soldiers – come 2015, those Lib Dem MPs who cling to their seats will do so thanks to Cameron's largesse.
  • (14) The oldest argument against the largesse of capitalism's winners is that philanthropists can achieve more simply by paying higher wages, rather than amassing wealth and giving it away as they see fit.
  • (15) It is more, really, than he deserves for his single outburst of politeness and his periodic financial largesse.
  • (16) But one UN official said sarcastically that it had just been "an accident of history" that South Korea's largesse to Africa coincided with the secretary general's selection.
  • (17) Back then, companies that made the Unix operating system could afford largesse.
  • (18) The goal for most communities in any electoral exercise is to be on the winning side and thus better placed to benefit from the winner's largesse.
  • (19) The call for largesse to rescue the European south riled the former prime minister: "We shouldn't pay for Greece.
  • (20) In addition, although the consultation portion of the effort can be reimbursed in part in some cases through fee for services, the liaison portion is dependent on the donation of psychiatry time or the largesse of the host department.