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alms [ahmz] Noun, pl Old-fashioned donations of money or goods to the poor [Greek eleēmosunē pity]
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| Mr Allworthy answered, "He could not dispute with the captain in the Greek language, and therefore could say nothing as to the true sense of the word which is translated charity; but that he had always thought it was interpreted to consist in action, and that giving alms constituted at least one branch of that virtue. Thirty thousand crowns in alms is not given, as you have done for the last six months, out of pure Christian charity; that would be too grand. Is this the still militant old man, standing at the corners of the three kingdoms, on all hands coercing alms of beggars? |
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