Definition of "benefaction"

benefaction

/bɛnɪˈfakʃ(ə)n/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural benefactions
1. An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
  Quotations
  We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [translating Wohlthat] to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.
  1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 70
2. An act of charity; almsgiving.