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Meanings of eleemosynary in English

Generous in assistance to the poor.

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Examples for "benevolent"
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The public hospitals and the benevolent societies frequently shared in the receipts.
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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Farewell; accept my corrections in the benevolent spirit of a true friend.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
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The solicitor was right to think that he had only benevolent intentions.
The economist
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Such language is designed to make violence sound benevolent and infamy honourable.
The Guardian
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His doctrines are the liberal and benevolent doctrines of the nineteenth century.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
1
The end they esteemed beneficent and noble; the means, regular and constitutional.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
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The management of the temper is an art full of beneficent results.
Thrift
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There was something even beneficent in his relaxed features as he answered:
The Fighting Shepherdess
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George explained that he was in the hands of his beneficent friend.
The Half-Hearted
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New life springs beneficent everywhere: Spiritual rubbish as little tolerated as material.
Past and Present
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She immersed herself in charitable work, especially the philanthropic Good Neighbor Initiative.
Death angel
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He urged more conversations among businesses, civil society, philanthropic groups and donors.
Reuters
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Interdisciplinary health care training is advocated by numerous government and philanthropic organizations.
Pubmed
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A summit official said the philanthropic summit was traditionally a non-partisan event.
Reuters
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Here is some advice to successfully plant seeds of philanthropic behavior: 1.
Reuters
Usage of eleemosynary in English
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The case before the court is clearly that of an eleemosynary corporation.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
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Hence the doctrine, that all eleemosynary corporations are private bodies.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
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Is it to the presidency of a board of visitors of an eleemosynary institution?
Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, / 2...
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What man would close to her the charitable institutions and eleemosynary establishments of the country?
Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, / 2...
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Engaging in an eleemosynary pricing policy for reasons of distributive justice can have perverse incentive effects.
Economics Without Illusions
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His spirited refusal of an eleemosynary supply of shoes, arose, no doubt, from a proper pride.
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 / 1709-1765
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Hospitals and eleemosynary institutions were nearly unknown.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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Some amongst them live upon eleemosynary alms.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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At the greatest possible distance from the church, beyond the precinct of the convent, is the eleemosynary department.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Call this an eleemosynary pricing policy.
Economics Without Illusions
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Education should never be wholly eleemosynary.
The Prose Works of William Wordsworth / For the First Time Colle...
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The lantern shone also against the knees of Archelaus, and lit up the check-board pattern of the eleemosynary trousers.
Major Vigoureux
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Look at me-soeleemosynary!
Flawless
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He should feel that he is no mere eleemosynary, but that he possesses a fund which is his very own.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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It was a kind of eleemosynary institution, created to serve not culture and not dukh, but a thing called the Purpose.
Seveneves
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If the view which has been taken of this question be at all correct, this was an eleemosynary corporation, a private charity.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
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