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Definitions of benefice
  1. noun
    an endowed church office giving income to its holder
  2. verb
    endow with a benefice
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Definition that contains benefice
  • grace (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God
  • devi Hindu mother goddess; supreme power in the universe; wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects
  • beneficiary having or arising from a benefice
  • pluralist a cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time
  • pluralism the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time
  • beneficence doing good; feeling beneficent
  • advowson the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice
  • free grace (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God
  • benefic exerting a favorable or beneficent influence
  • glebe house a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice)
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