different between bursary vs benefaction

English

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bursaria, from bursarius.

bursary (plural bursaries)

A monetary award to university students that allows them to continue their studies.
(dated) The treasury of a religious order or public institution.

From Latin benefacti?nem, from benefacere (“to benefit”).

benefaction (countable and uncountable, plural benefactions)

An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 70:
  We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [transl. 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.
An act of charity; almsgiving.

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