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Charity   /tʃˈɛrɪti/   Listen
Charity

noun
(pl. charities)
1.
A foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals).
2.
A kindly and lenient attitude toward people.  Synonym: brotherly love.
3.
An activity or gift that benefits the public at large.
4.
Pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers.  Synonyms: Greek valerian, Jacob's ladder, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae.
5.
An institution set up to provide help to the needy.



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"Charity" Quotes from Famous Books



... all hearts. To condemn him who does not deserve it, even in the mind, even by a passing thought, is to break the great law, that which has established the union of souls here below, and to which Christ has given the sweet name of charity. ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... enlightened churches, where women are expected to provide and pack clothing for missionary boxes, attend unfailingly on the stated means of grace, visit and nurse the sick and poor members, deny themselves for charity, listen reverently to stupid discourses on the unknown, delivered with profound certainty that approaches omniscience, but are not allowed to "speak out in meetin'," or to have the honor of being represented by women delegates at denominational conventions, or clubs and councils. They are to lead ...
— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn

... always than the bite. The fear worse than the danger! Suspense is the very d—l! Did you ever hear of the Scotch parson's charity? He prayed that God might suspend Napoleon over the very jaws of hell—but 'Oh, Lord!' said he, 'dinna let him fa' in!' To my mind, mortal lips never ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms

... in some degree to living physically in the open air, is the living mentally and emotionally in the atmosphere of love. A large charity of mind, which refuses absolutely to shut itself in little secluded places of prejudice, bigotry and contempt for others, and which attains to a great and universal sympathy, helps, most obviously, to open the way to that region of calm and freedom of which we have spoken, while conversely all ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... to look at each other again; and myself seeing at once dirty thoughts was in their heads, and that they tuk me for a poor beggar coming to crave charity, with that says I, 'Oh, not at all,' says I, 'by no manes—we have plenty of mate ourselves there below, and we'll dhress it,' says I, 'if you would be plased to lind us the loan of a gridiron,' says ...
— Stories by English Authors: Ireland • Various


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