Word Finder - charity

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An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.

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The goods or money given to those in need.

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Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.

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In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity.

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Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.

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• agape

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Objects of charity are not guests.

This is a charity that hides a multitude of sins.

You don't take charity.

Dean spent much time clinging to the sideboards until his wife, with a heart full of charity and an arm about his waist, supported him in slow glides around the oval.

According to the Mahabharata he is at last promoted to Paradise as the reward for his munificent charity.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

But he has not charity who divides the unity..

His charity was unbounded.

For the rest of his life Adamson was supported by charity; he died in 1592.

The ample revenues which his predecessors had consumed in pomp and luxury he diligently applied to the establishment of hospitals; and the multitudes who were supported by his charity preferred the eloquent discourses of their benefactor to the amusements of the theatre or of the circus.

In fact, the image of this venerable charity seems to have skipped an era, jumping from 19th century philanthropy to 21st efficiency.

His family were sherifs or descendants of Mahomet, and his father, Mahi-ed-Din, was celebrated throughout North Africa for his piety and charity.

After a number of tentative plans, he resolved in 1695 to institute what is often called a "ragged school," supported by public charity.

Until the end of his life he remained a protagonist in theological controversy and a keen fighter against latitudinarianism and liberalism; but the sharpest religious or political differences never broke his personal friendships and his Christian charity.

Those who ate at home marked themselves out as both greedy and lacking in charity.

She cradled her son in the piscina and lived on charity.

The causes of their subsequent estrangement are obscure, but it was possibly due to the empress's lavish expenditure in charity and church building, which endeared her to ecclesiastics but was a serious drain on the imperial finances.

On her death he honoured her memory by the foundation of a charity for orphan girls, who bore the name of Alimentariae Faustinianae.

Among the reports of the state officials, those of the Railroad and Ware House Commission, of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and of the Commissioners of Charity are especially valuable.

The expenses of these missions are borne by private charity, and by a general annual collection.

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This young company produced an operetta each summer holiday and raised more than £ 6,000 for charity.

Or should they be expected to donate organs out of charity?

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Her specialist interests include medieval hospitals and religious and social attitudes to charity and the poor, and lay women's piety.

The Charity Commission asked pollsters NOP to survey people across the UK about their attitude to charity giving at Christmas.

The Prince only played polo to raise money for charity.

Matthew Arnold's poem "St Brandan" gives fine expression to the old story that, on account of an act of charity done to a leper at Joppa, Judas was allowed an hour's respite from hell once a year.

Trinity House is a charity for seamen of the merchant service; the building (1753) was founded by the Trinity House Gild instituted in 1369, and contains a noteworthy collection of paintings and a museum.

Among the charitable institutions are the City Hospital (1886), the Santa Rosa Infirmary (1869), maintained by Sisters of Charity, a House of Refuge (1897), a Rescue Home (1895), a home for destitute children and aged persons (1897), the St Francis Home for the Aged (1893), St John's Orphan Asylum (1878), St Joseph's Orphan Asylum (1871) and the Protestant Home for Destitute Children (1887).

One of the most noteworthy institutions in the city is the Charity Organization Society, with headquarters in Fitch Institute.

In 1544 Bonner gave him the living of Solihull; and Feckenham established a reputation as a preacher and a disputant of keen intellect but unvarying charity.

He took part, with much charity and mildness, in the Oxford disputes against Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley; but he had no liking for the fierce bigotry and bloody measures then in force against Protestants.

After fourteen years' confinement, he was released on bail and lived in Holborn, where his benevolence was shown by all manner of works of charity.

In 1580 he was removed to Wisbeach Castle, and there exercised such an influence of charity and peace among his fellow-prisoners that was remembered when, in after years, the notorious Wisbeach Stirs broke out under the Jesuit Weston.

The place became an asylum for lepers and the caring for them began to be a charity under government charge in 1866; but conditions here were at first unspeakably unhygienic, their improvement being largely due to Father Damien, who devoted himself to this work in 1873.

Another public charity of Hawaii is the general free dispensary maintained by the territorial government at Honolulu.

By a true instinct the early Christian writers called widows and orphans the altar of God on which the sacrifices of almsgiving are offered up. 4 Such works of charity, however, represent only one of the channels by which self-sacrifice is ministered, to which all prayers and thanksgiving and instruction of psalms, prophecy and preaching contribute.

Between 1840 and 1850 he edited Swedenborg's treatises on The Doctrine of Charity, The Animal Kingdom, Outlines of a Philosophic Argument on the Infinite, and Hieroglyphic Key to Natural and Spiritual Mysteries.

There is little or no evidence of works of charity outside the monastery being undertaken by Studite monks.

The principal charitable foundations are the Casa de Caridad or house of charity, the hospital general, dating from 1401, and the foundling hospital.

By his tact, equity, and Christian charity, Sigismund endeared himself even to those who differed most from him, as witness the readiness of the Lithuanians to elect his infant son grand-duke of Lithuania in 1522, and to crown him in 1529.

Such are the Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, Lazarists, Augustinians, Marists, &c. Besides the above orders of priests, an immense number of religious societies of women are engaged in works of education and charity throughout the whole of the foreign mission field.

There are also the penal colonies at Veen huizen in Drente, which were brought from the Society of Charity (Maatschappij van Weldadigkeid) in 1859.

Private charities have always occupied a distinguished position in the Netherlands, and the principle of the law of 1854 concerning the relief of the poor is, that the state shall only interfere when private charity fails.

At the head of the charitable institutions stand the agricultural colonies belonging to the Society of Charity (see Drente).

The university possesses considerable endowments and has several foundations for the assistance of poor students; the "regent's charity," for instance, founded by Christian, affords free residence and a small allowance to one hundred bursars.

In some large towns the Elberfeld system of unpaid district visitors and the interworking of public and private charity is in force.

When he was about twelve years old, Giulio Cesare Borromeo resigned to him an abbacy, the revenue of which he applied wholly in charity to the poor.