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Someone who gives you money and never lets you forget it.
means A person who gives help, money, or support to someone else or to a cause.
from From Latin bene ('well') plus factor ('one who does/makes'), itself from facere ('to do'). A benefactor is literally a 'well-doer' — the same root that gives us 'fact' and 'manufacture.' The word entered English in the 1400s, borrowed via Latin legal and religious usage, where 'benefactor' named donors to churches and charities — a habit of public credit-giving that, fittingly, never really went away.
- etymology
- latin for good doer, literally
- estate plot twist
- often revealed only after death
- tax perk
- generosity that's also deductible
- power dynamic
- gratitude expected, strings often attached