benefiter

English

Alternative forms

• benefitter

Etymology

From 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, […]