benefices
Meaning of benefices
plural noun
a permanent Church appointment, typically that of a rector or vicar, for which property and income are provided in respect of pastoral duties.
Middle English: via Old French from Latin beneficium ‘favour, support’, from bene ‘well’ + facere ‘do’.
Information about benefices
- It is a name.
- The singular form of benefices is: benefice.
- Languages in which benefices is used:
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Hyphenation of benefices
benefices
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- benefices is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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