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Alms-giving   /ɑlmz-gˈɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Alms-giving

noun
1.
Making voluntary contributions to aid the poor.  Synonym: almsgiving.





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... arrogant. The women are not allowed to be in their mosques at the same time with the men; this they think would make their thoughts wander from their proper business there. On this account they reproach the Christians with the impropriety of the contrary usage. The next point of practice is alms-giving, which is frequently enjoined in the Koran and looked upon as highly meritorious. Many of them have been very exemplary in the performance of this duty. The third point of practical religion is fasting the whole month Ramadan, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various
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... become the lower classes of the British Isles, that many of those who do marry, marry with the clear understood determination of throwing their offspring upon the public bounty. The Puseyite and Church alms-giving clergy, to their shame, encourage our miserable population in these most despicable sentiments, and tell the people it is their right as granted to them by the founder and apostles of the Christian Church. Tyrants must have slaves, and priestly tyrants as well as ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
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Words linked to "Alms-giving" :   gift, giving


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