benefacture

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin benefactūrus, future active participle of benefaciō (“to do good, to benefit”) + -ure (noun-forming suffix). === Noun === benefacture (countable and uncountable, plural benefactures) (obsolete) An act of doing good; benefaction, beneficence. Antonym: malefacture === Further reading === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “benefacture”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.