public charity

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public charity - a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals)

charity - a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals)

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My mother lives on public charity, my sister begs for my mother; I have, somewhere or other, brothers who equally beg for themselves; and I, the eldest, will go and do as all the rest do -- I will go and ask charity

Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

Here is one of the finest scholars, one of the most original men of genius, and one of the most industrious of the literary profession of our country, whose temporary suspension of labor, from bodily illness, drops him immediately to a level with the common objects of public charity.

An Appreciation by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

I cannot but think, with a view to the principle and its tendency to elevate or depress the character of the industrious classes, that a Public Charity is immeasurably better than a Private Foundation, no matter how munificently the latter may be endowed.

American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context

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