benefiter

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English

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Etymology

benefit +‎ -er

Noun

benefiter (plural benefiters)

  1. A person who receives a benefit.
  2. A person who benefits somebody else; benefactor.
    • 1849, William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 17, page 217:
      That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, []